Yes Jim I visited a friend in Sicily and we went to the beach I had never seen so many Pancratium maritimum.together bad luck they where just out of flower full of seed-pods I have to go back to make pictures Roland 2010/8/6 Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> > Lee wrote: "They went down one weekend in the early spring and they arrived > around midnight during a full moon. They told me that for miles and miles, > as > they got closer to their destination, the desert appeared to be covered > with > white lily blooms shining in the moonlight as far as the eye could see, and > they > rolled down their windows and the air had this heavenly scent my aunt says > she'll never forget. Wish I could have experienced that." > > WOW! I've read similar descriptions of the mass blooming of Pancratium > maritimum. > > You Californians have it made. > > Jim McKenney > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Tel./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com