> > Congrats on all the Calochortus blooming. Which species are you growing? > Will you share your secrets on how you do it in NC? > Nhu, These are the remnants of a collection from Ratko seed that grew in pots in the Connecticut greenhouse. They deeply resented pot culture here in North Carolina.. After two seasons the survivors were put into a minor bulb bed....sand over sandy clayey loam in a mound over native soil. They come (some will skip a season above ground ) and mostly go. C. striatus was in bloom last weekend but was beaten up by the rainstorms by the time I noticed. . In CT seed would germinate like cress. Here, hardly a sprout. Brodiaea californica and coronaria are also blooming now in my little corner of California. Mark Mazer Hertford, North Carolina USA Zone 8a