Calochortus pursuits
Karl Church (Sun, 09 Aug 2015 09:04:39 PDT)

Well done Rob, beautiful photos.

Karl
Dinuba
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On Aug 9, 2015 8:56 AM, "Rob Skinner" <rob@rustyiron.com> wrote:

On Aug 6, 2015, at 10:48 PM, Rob Skinner <rob@rustyiron.com> wrote:

Thank you for those wonderful Calohortus pictures. I’m a relatively new

member to this list, and I’m here because of Calochortus.

It started about two months ago. I was hiking in the hills near Laguna

Canyon in Socal, when I spotted a couple flowers that knocked my socks
off. I’d never seen anything like them before. I’m in my 50’s, lived here
all my life, and do an extensive amount of hiking and mountain biking. It
seems odd that I’d never seen these before. I took some pictures and
decided to try and track some of these down to plant in my yard.

After a bit of googling, I determined they were Calochortus. Within a

couple weeks, I spotted a few more in the Santa Ana Mountains. How about
that for luck?

Since I’ve never seen these before, I suspect they’re not common, so I

don’t want to harvest any from the wild. I searched for a source of
plants, and my quest led me to some of the experts who suggested I join
this mailing list. So if anyone has a source, or wants to share some of
their own, I would appreciate it.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of the flowers near Laguna.

Rob

Oops. David P. just informed me that pictures can’t be attached to
messages on the list. Here are three links to some of my recent
Calochurtus pictures.

Rob

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