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Used to dig up wild trilliums for my yard, now I just take pictures and leave them
I used to be that guy who saw a nice patch of trilliums on a hike near Asheville and thought, free plants for my shade garden. Dug up maybe 15 of them over two springs back around 2018. Every single one died within a season, and I later found out a trillium takes 7 to 10 years to bloom from seed, so I basically wiped out a decade of growth for nothing. Then a botanist at a native plant sale in Raleigh told me straight up that transplanting wild trilliums has something like a 5 percent survival rate and it can be illegal on public land in a lot of states. That stuck with me. Now I carry a phone and a hand lens, take my photos, and buy nursery-propagated stock if I want them at home. My yard looks worse for it but the woods look better. Anyone else here been through the dig-it-up phase and regret it, or am I the only one who killed a whole hillside before learning better?
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