California -Lilium inquiry
diana chapman (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:05:11 PDT)
There are no L. humboldtii any more in the Brownsville cemetery. They
started mowing the cemetery with a string trimmer a few years ago. The last
time I was there, about a year ago, I didn't see a single plant. Four or
five years ago there were still some plants that were protected because they
were growing up a wire fence. The fence is now gone and so are the plants.
When I first saw the L. humbodtii there in about 1984 there were hundreds of
plants.
Diana
Telos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] California -Lilium inquiry
Humboldtii and Washingtonianum to be found in the I-80 and/or Hwy
20 areas of the Sierra foothills.
Whenever I read of wildflower areas, I put a sticky note in the
correct place in my DeLorme topographical map book.
I have lots of notes, derived from an article by Derek Fox in the
1991 North American Lily Society yearbook, about the area where you
live, from Placerville over to Lake Tahoe. I assume you don't need
any information about that area.
I have only one note on the two map pages of land to the north and
east of Yuba City. - Brownsville churchyard - famous clump of L.
humboldtii, but cleaned up after flowering, so no seed sets.
--
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil
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