1. If anyone can, Joe can even though his health is poor! 2. Daffodil Hill in the Sierra Foothills, a favorite of everyone within several hundred miles. 3. Anyone know a source for this Amaryllid? 4. The Lycoris sounds mouth-watering. Shirley Meneice Lee Poulsen wrote: > First of all, why do so many of you dislike yellow so much (and orange > even more so it seems; Cathy Craig has been telling me since I met her > that she can't stand most orange flowers)?! I would hate it if that part > of the spectrum were missing from flower colors. But then again, I was a > huge fan of the 64 colors box of Crayola crayons back when I was a kid. > I had to have my very own box because I didn't want any of my younger > brothers or sisters playing with them because they might lose one of the > colors--I even saved up my allowance money to purchase my own box! :-) > I guess I really like intensely hued versions of all the "major" colors > on the color wheel, in flowers and also in birds and tropical fish. Are > we going to step our way around the color circle with TOWs? > > Here is a list of some yellow flowers I could think of that I like in > particular: > > 1. Yellow Clivia miniata--especially this one unnamed variety that Shige > Sasaki found among a group of Joe Solomone's yellow Clivias when he and > Masashi came to visit and Harold Koopowitz took them up there to visit. > It was the most intense deep butter yellow Clivia I've ever seen. No > paleness whatsoever, almost but not quite a golden yellow with no hints > of orange or pink at all, that almost glowed. It looked almost like a > melted yellow crayon in color. I hope he gets its genes into the gene > pool soon. > > 2. Bright yellow Division 1 or 2 daffodils or masses of yellow jonquil > type narcissus. No names in particular. There is an area of the > foothills of the Sierra Nevada in central California where you can drive > down the country highways in spring and see massive drifts of yellow > daffodils scattered all about. I think it's breathtaking. > > 3. New favorite: Paramongaia weberbaueri. What can I say? These are > awesome flowers. The next one is about to bloom, maybe tomorrow, and a > third one is now sending up a scape! What would a field of these look > like in bloom? I read that in Peru bunches of these are sold and the > scented air around the sellers is very memorable. > > 4. Lycoris aurea that bloomed for me the first time last year. Nice gold > yellow color. And I really like the flower shape; it's so intriguing. > > 5. The yellow-based Lachenalias, esp. this one hybrid I found at a local > alternative grocery store chain (Trader Joe's) that is the same size and > shape of L. bulbifera, but was a solid, intense, butter yellow. I hope > it re-blooms this year. > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10 > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > . >