Quackin Grass Nursery

Trillium grandiflorum ‘Snow Bunting’ (ex: Dick Redfield) – This is one of a handful of the remarkable but still quite rare double forms of the Showy Wake-robin. Dick Redfield, a well-known Connecticut rock gardener and friend of H. Lincoln Foster, lived in the town Scotland which is near to Quackin’ Grass Nursery. So, Dick would usually make a couple visits each year to us. We were always so honored. Several years ago he was interested in a fairly rare species of Clematis from China we had made available. I told Dick I’d be happy to trade one for a piece of rhizome of his double Trillium. He mulled it over for a few moments, looked intensely and directly into my eyes, cocked an eyebrow and agreed. Hence, a Yankee trade was born! We are fairly certain this is not ‘Eco Double Gardenia’ which is a lovely slightly more lax double form. Ours is more “formal”, symmetrical. It may be ‘Snow Bunting’ but no one has been able to positively identify it for us. Whichever cultivar it may be it is gorgeous, slightly shorter and later flowering than the straight species and a coveted perennial here at Quackin' Grass. Trillium may arrive bare root or potted.