My deer ate one patch of three trilliums, but they missed these three great white trillium at least for today. Although I suspect they will be eaten soon as the deer really like this kind of trillium, but they leave the nodding trilliums alone. The repeated grazing by the deer cause the blossoms to be smaller each year or even kill the plants.
Surviving Great White Trilliums
A day made a big difference with the wildflowers as the great white trillium opened up, although the blossom is rather small because the deer eat the flower most years before it can put much energy into the rhizome causing smaller blooms or kills off the plant. I wonder how many days this lonely trillium will last before the deer finds it.
Season’s First Trillium
When driving back from town today, I noticed large patches of trilliums blooming in the ditches. The Great White Trillium are a favorite snack of deer and with my population of deer, I only found three great white trilliums blooming in my woods this afternoon. And the blossoms are about a third of the normal size as the deer have grazed them too many times which prevents the plant the ability to store energy in the roots. And it may take 10 years before the plant blossoms the first time and the deer just eats my trilliums.
Not So Great
There are trilliums blooming in the woods at the farm, but the great white trilliums were beheaded again by the deer along my path to the pond. The trilliums have been eaten too many years in a row so only a few even sprouted but the critters managed to nibble on them leaving stems only.
Missing Great White Trilliums
As I was picking up sticks off the lawn near the edge of the woods, I spotted the leaves of the trillium plant poking up, although the leaves haven’t unfurled and no bud showing yet. But with the deer around my place, I rarely get to see the great white trillium blossoms as they must be rather tasty to the deer and I generally only see stems were a flower should have been.
Great White Trillium Blossoms
The deer wandering around my yard last evening was probably looking for more great white trilliums to eat but they will be out of luck since this is only one left in my woods.
The Surviving Trillium
On a very warm May day, it is hard to think about May snow storms that can occur but hopefully we will avoid that this year and the only white on the ground is from wildflowers. The Great White Trillium is blooming and I was able to get a couple of pictures before the deer eat them. Trilliums are a favorite of deer and the blossoms get smaller if the deer continue to graze on them and some of mine which have been eaten several years in a row won’t have blossoms this year.They don’t bother the Nodding Trilliums very much as the blossom hangs underneath but the large blossom of these are hard to miss.
Surviving Great White Trilliums
Today is Trinity Sunday in the Western Christian liturgical calendar which celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In various books, including the American Gardening published in 1896, the trillium is often mentioned in connection with Trinity Sunday and the wildflower is also called trinity flower. Nearly all parts of the plant comes in threes. It has 3 broad leaves on each stalk, 3 small green sepals and 3 large white sepals surrounding a group of yellow stamens plus it also has three-sectioned seedpods.
But this year my great white trillium blossoms has already turned pink or dropped their flower petals so only the nodding trilliums were displaying their white flowers yet.
Great White Trillium or Trinity Flower
