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was our luck to move in May, with all the grinding detail and tiipe that involved. The sight of the trilliums was compensation for the spring wild flowers 1 had missed because I was too busy packing and unpacking boxes.
Trillium grandiflorum, rarely is a Latin name so satisfying to say. The genus, Trillium is derived from the word for three. It is descriptive for the plants have three leaves and three petals plus six stamens (a multiple of three). Take my word for it that the ovary has three chambers and the tigma three lobes. ‘Grad’, as in Grandiflorum, means ‘large’; it also summons up elegance, purity and grace.
Many of the trilliums near Linden are large. One petal can be 2 1/2 inches long, making one flower S inches across. There are thousands of them, no, millions, stretching away oyer the floor of the woods as far as one can see.
Lee and I kept making the drive to see the trilliums, as if checking on the reality of it. One visit a cloud had settled on Blue Mountain and we viewed the bold white flowers through a soft gray mist. The effect was astonishing.
It’s not just the trilliums. There are other wild flowers: delicate Yellow Violets, Bloodroot with white, poppylike flowers, and Hepatica, with flowers ranging from pale lilac to deep blue. These are for the early visitors. In May, one can rind our native wild
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