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

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