Bulb Log 10

[Maggi Young]

The Bulb Despot is  today en route to America for two weeks but the new Bulb Log 10 is now online.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=bulb

[annew]

And very fine it is too.

[Maggi Young]

I expect there are some little yellow clues as to why  that  might be, Anne?? 

[annew]

 

[Maggi Young]

As I type this, The Bulb Despot should be starting his first Talk at the NARGS  Western Winter Study Weekend in Portland Oregon.
He is followed by the Forum's own, Carlo Balistrieri ..... keeping it in the "Family", so to speak!
 John Lonsdale, an "occasional" forumist, is on the "bill" tomorrow, followed by Ian and Carlo again.......see the schedue here..http://www.nargs.org/meet/west09schedule.html

Hope they're all having a good time over there! 


 The Event is being hosted by the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of the  North American Rock Garden Society.
NARGS is celebrating their 75th Anniversary.... and the weekend includes the AGM.... wonder if there will be cake?? 

http://www.nargs.org/meet/west09home.html

[Maggi Young]

Ian is spending a couple of days with Ed Alverson .... plant hunting with cameras at the ready in Oregon..... I've just had a phone call...... they're hiking up a hill ( Table Peak??) which is covered with thousands of Erythonium hendersonii.... just a few flowers flowers out  as yet, but Ian says the leaves are carpeting the ground .....  he is blissful..... I fear he may not come back.....
The only E. hendersonii here at the moment is this one..... some youngsters in a frame......






 there are more to come.... but not THOUSANDS!

[Ed Alverson]

Ian is now in Denver, after two days in southern Oregon, hosted by the NARGS Siskiyou Chapter.  Here are a few photos taken Tuesday at Upper Table Rock near Medford, Oregon, among the millions (not just thousands!) of Erythronium hendersonii - just prior to the phone call that Maggi mentioned.  Because the flowering season is so late this year, most plants had yet to open their flowers, but fortunately a few had opened for us.  It was interesting to see how many of the dense Erythronium carpets were growing under the thickets of poison oak.  Ian has been in poison oak country for every one of the field trips, but hopefully he has made it through without actually getting the poison oak dermatitis!

The next day (Wednesday) we toured the Illinois Valley in Josephine County, Oregon, with members of the Siskiyou chapter.  This area is home to Erythronium citrinum.  I'll leave it to Ian to provide more details after he returns home, but suffice it to say, there were several more "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" moments on Wednesday as well.

Ed