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 > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- * * A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine --- * *