Mass blooming Calochortus

Peter Taggart petersirises@gmail.com
Tue, 22 May 2012 00:08:01 PDT
What about the heat from extra sun on the ground (and fire) helping to set
the flowering buds in the 'dormant' bulbs in cleared spaces?
Peter (UK)


>> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:45:44 -0700
> >> From: rarebulbs@suddenlink.net
> >> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Subject: [pbs] Mass blooming Calochortus
>



>   Last year I was very dismayed to see that virtually
> >> all vegetation in one area had been cleared in on both sides of the road
> >> to a depth of about 20 feet.
>


>  This spring there was a mass
> >> blooming of Calochortus tolmiei in one place and C. monophyllus in
> >> another. ....so maybe it isn't
> >> anything mysterious at all, just the removal of competition,
>



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