Lily photos from the "State of Jefferson"

Randall P. Linke randysgarden@gmail.com
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:55:04 PDT
What lovely pictures!  I keep hoping to get into the California Cascades
again.  It has been so long since I have been up into the mountains, either
the Cascades or the Sierras.  Your photos inspire me to do all I can to
make this happen.

Randy,
Monterey Bay Region, California

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:19 PM, stephen munro <munrosj27@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was lucky to time my trip down to the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon and
> California to coincide with the blooming of a couple rare Lily species and
> one Calochortus species..  They are Lilium bolanderi, Lilium vollmeri
> (pardalinum subsp. vollmeri if you want) and Calochortus
> howelli.  Unfortunately I could not find Lilium wigginsi and I was a couple
> weeks early to catch L. washingtonianum and kellogii as I found one lily
> that appeared to be one or the other in bud.
>
> The clump of Vollmer's lily I photographed was amazing.  Dozens and dozens
> of them with numerous flower heads growing up to or above 90 cm. I hope
> they will stay safe and undug.
>
> The weather was poor down there with rain and lows in the thirties and
> highs just into the fifties.  To my disappointment the weather there as of
> this afternoon and into the weekend will be in the 80s and clear.  Thats
> the breaks!
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Stephen Munro
> Seattle
>
> The link is here. http://www.flickr.com/stephenmunro/
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Calochortus report
>
> Mary Sue wrote,
> At 08:29 PM 6/22/2012, you wrote:
> >My Calochortus report is that something has decided the flowers are
> >very tasty.  Most of mine with just a few exceptions had the stems
> >shortened before the buds opened.
>
> This happened for two years in my bulb frames, and the culprits were
> rabbits. I actually caught a pair of young ones in there after I had
> tried to protect the flowering stems with bird netting.
>
> Jane McGary
>
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