Hi Jonathan, Absolutely! Could you please send one or more of the pictures and the specific location to my email address. Amaryllis belladonna are in full flower right now in Sebastopol so I have some skepticism. Nathan At 08:56 AM 8/2/2014, you wrote: >Before this topic fades away, I wanted to share back with interested PBS >subscribers that I checked with my sister, who lives in Sebastopol, >California (the namesake of the one that used to be in Ukraine) about >whether or not she has seen Lycoris squamigera blooming there. She and I >have previously communicated about Amaryllis belladonna and how I wished I >could grow it in Connecticut. She states that Lycoris squamigera does >bloom there, and that its blooming signals the end of summer locally (kind >of like goldenrod (Solidago spp) elsewhere in North America. She sent me a >few pictures of it that she snapped with her mobile phone that are in bloom >now as documentation. Now's the time, if anyone wants to make the trip to >see them there. > >Jonathan Knisely >New Haven, CT 06511 >USDA 6a > >_________ > >Shawn, > >That's worth checking into. Sebastopol may have one of the highest >concentrations of Amaryllis belladonna in Sonoma County but I have >yet to see any Lycoris squamigera flowering there. > >Nathan > > >At 07:26 AM 7/31/2014, you wrote: > >I wonder if the Robinetts grew Lycoris squamigera up in Sebastopol, > >CA, where it does dip into the teens Fahrenheit. I imagine one > >could see it and Amaryllis belladonna side-by-side there. > > >Shawn Pollard > >Yuma, AZ >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/