Dear P. It has been years since I vaguely thought about PCNs and you are in the midst. Surely you have a better educated guess than I do. Wish I could grow I munzii. Does nay one still t ry with success. ? No useful pictures in the messages. Are you seeing declines in native lilies too? Climate woes. We are in the start of a 10 day(maybe longer) heat wave maybe up to 103 (feels like) and NO 0 ZERO - rain. We have no urge to garden in these temps. Weeds love it - of course. Any progress on the garden/estate ? Cool hugs J & J > On Jun 21, 2023, at 3:49 PM, Paige Woodward via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Hi, Jim. What species of Iris? Tenax, perhaps, or douglasiana? If you sent pictures, I can’t view them (boring, sorry). Paige > > >> On Jun 21, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Jim Benson via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: >> >> From Brookings OR We have had a fine year of Coastal Iris blooming >> yellow, blue and violet along drive way under birch trees and mail >> boxes. Better this year than last as had more spring rain. >> >> -----------------------------------------From: "Paige Woodward via >> pbs" >> >> To: "Pacific Bulb Society PBS" >> Cc: "Paige Woodward" >> Sent: Tuesday June 20 2023 9:16:04PM >> Subject: [pbs] Lilies in the W US this year >> >> How are the wild lilies of the western US faring this year? Anyone >> been out hiking? Anyone have sources of information to suggest? >> >> Over on the Lilium list, friends reported that on brief forays in N >> California and S Oregon in the past couple of years, lilies were gone >> or far between at familiar sites, the terrain often clearcut (possibly >> for firebreaks) or otherwise devastated. >> >> Wild lilies bloom around now, if they’re going to. Several times >> during the past couple of decades there’ve been Lily Chases, in >> which small groups of worshipers visited wild lilies and photographed >> them, travelling in convoy through California, Oregon and Washington >> State. The sites were scouted in advance because every year is >> different. >> >> The past couple of years have been very different indeed, however. >> There won’t be a formal Lily Chase this summer. I wonder if >> there’ll ever be again. >> >> Paige Woodward >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> /> Unsubscribe: >> PBS Forum >> https://… >> /> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum https://… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…