California, at least in the interior northern Santa Lucia, is very dry. Definitely not a good spring bloom season even in the usual best spots...steep dry meadows, The heaviest flowering is among the various species of Ceanothus (California Lilac), isolated patches of Eschscholzia caespitosa (Tusfted Poppy) and Lupine. At higher moist locations, Primula clevelandii (Padre's Shotting Star) is still blooming. Everywhere, the dependable Dichelostemma capitatum (Blue Dicks) was blooming lightly. Saw one orchid (maybe a Piperia) not yet in bloom. Here and there the usual Salvias (Hummingbird Sage, Chia) and Castilleja (Indian Paintbrush). Looking forward, Calochortus albus (Fairy Lantern) are in bud. Oh, how could I forget the largest geophyte, Marah fabacea (Manroot) tangling in the understory starting its unimpressive bloom. Here and there, pleasant thin carpets of small annuals (Leptosiphon, tiny yellow Asteraceae), but the usual medium sized annuals were mostly absent except in north facing gullies. Robert On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 1:44 AM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear All, > > After good winter rain the native flowers are very beautiful at this time > of the year, sorry to repeat myself. I walked through flowering meadows > near the south coast of the Algarve and would like to share this with you. > > The first two pictures show Convulvulus tricolor as a dominant flower, > mixed with others, a garden designer could not have done better. They give > the green hills an unreal blue sheen from a distance. > > The third picture shows a meadow of gladiolus illyricus or italicus, only > distinguishable in seed, I did not check. > > How does California look like now? > > Bye for now > > Uli > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image0.jpeg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 196329 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image1.jpeg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 210362 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image0.jpeg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 196175 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_20210414_112429389_HDR-crop-1k.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 892701 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_20210414_161714521_HDR-crop-1k.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 768208 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_20210415_111437843_HDR-crop-1k.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 708864 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
