Pacific Northwest Gardening: Help with trilliums and hardy orchids. Please!, 1 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
I am very excited about all of these babies. I had planned on ordering Rheum "Ace of Hearts" last year from Heronswood, but they were sold out. Now I am glad I didn't because I got it for $8 less from Naylor Creek this spring, and it is a wonderful root (tuber?), whereas I was terribly disapointed with the size of the plants in my Heronswood order last year. I am going to plant it next to my big pond, to go with the darmera, gunnera, and banana, to go for a somewhat kind of a dinosaur effect for that area.

I am all good with waiting a couple of years for the trilliums to bloom. The one that made me decided to buy trilliums in the first place was Trillium cuneatum because I fell in love with for the foilage. (see picture....)

Pixy, As I am a "poker" myself, thanks for the warning of the bulbs working themselves down. I know what you mean about not showing anything. There is a wild one that sits right on the edge of the road between Mom's house and mine, and I swear I look for it every time I walk that way in the spring, and it just suddenly appears out of nowhere. I finally marked it last year, so now at least know the general area to be watching!

Willow, your clump story is very encouraging!