Although many of the dry climate Calochortus that I grow did not fare very well this year with our continual abundant rainfall, I've been having some really nice blooms of some of the others. Many of the ones I grow are probably really Mariposa hybrids grown from open pollinated seed. Calochortus flowers are so amazing that you just want to photograph them over and over. I can see that some species are very well represented on our wiki Calochortus page. And I just added a few more of Calochortus tolmiei that I took in the last week or so even though we already have some gorgeous pictures of this species. On our flower trip this spring we saw Calochortus monophyllus in Butte county blooming along side the road. We stopped to photograph an Iris and this was a bonus. It was different than the one I flowered in cultivation (and may have lost) as it has red spots. It is wonderfully hairy. I've added pictures of it taken in the wild. Finally blooming from seed for the first time for me this year is Calochortus syntrophus, a species discovered by Frank Callahan in 1993 in Shasta County. It is similar to C. superbus, but very different too and growing in that county in a different habitat. The Robinetts collected a few seeds to share with members of the Calochortus Society in a year where they were a lot of flowers and mine have bloomed. I was reading about it in an old issue of Mariposa and see that it grows in an area of high rainfall so that's probably why I haven't lost it. I had two bloom this year. The flower of one was about a quarter the size of the other. It will be interesting to see if it returns if this holds true in later years as the difference in size of the flowers was so dramatic. I've added pictures of it too (one of them was being pollinated at the time.) http://pacificbulbsociety.com/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers