Dear All, We our late rains this year I have had great blooms in my garden from Brodiaea and Triteleia, both in the ground and in pots. There are a number of species I planted many years ago in a raised bed that I never replanted blooming this year that I thought had died. They are species like T. peduncularis that grow in wet places and the last few years that bed has been dry before they bloomed so I didn't realize they were still there. Some are still blooming now, especially some of the late blooming Brodiaeas like B. pallida, B. californica, and B. filifolia. Most of the Triteleias are done although there are still some Triteleia laxa in bloom as this is a species that is very variable in the wild, both in color, time of bloom, height, and size of flowers. One size does not fit all. Our local populations are late blooming. I have added some more pictures to the wiki of bulbs we saw blooming in the wild in April so you can see my point about the extended time for bloom. Although we didn't expect to see many Brodiaeas in bloom in April since most of them bloom much later in the year, in Merced County where we saw Calochortus luteus added to the wiki earlier, we saw Brodiaea californica. This was a lower growing one with smaller flowers like the variety leptandra which isn't thought to be found in this area. Georgie Robinett told me that she and Jim often found on their trips bulbs in areas not reported to be there. I've added a couple of pictures of it including one with Triteleia hyacinthina so you can see the size. This was drying grass and other vegetation as this was a very open area. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… And I have added some Triteleia pictures as well. I added another picture of the Triteleia hyacinthina in Merced county. We also saw Triteleia montana growing on a rocky ledge at a higher elevation area of Kern County near Lake Isabella. Finally I added a number of Triteleia laxa pictures to show the variation. In Bear Valley in Colusa County where we saw some wonderful displays of many flowers there were a lot of them intermixed in the grasses and wild flowers. In Kern County we saw some stands of very large flowers. The Robinett's referred to some that they grew as 'Sierra Giant' so there are obviously bigger flowers in some of the Sierra populations. We found these flowers very beautiful with a sheen and some pink tones. Near Mariposa on our way home we saw a field of Triteleia laxa in the grass. As we got out to take pictures we walked down the road and came across a rocky bank where it was growing with other wild flowers. These flowers were very light blue with a wider umbel, not at all like the smaller dark blue flowers on shorter pedicels blooming right now in Mendocino County. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue