Northern California and South West Oregon

[arillady]

Paul my Calochortus have the same treatment as the arils - no extra water, slightly raised beds and the beating sun all summer.

[Paul T]

Pat,

Mine are in pots and I need to put them somewhere to completely dry off (well in most cases, some of them like a little summer moisture).  You have no idea how much I struggled with not watering the aril irises and the junos.    I succeeded, and hopefully all will surface (all the arils are growing, but no junos up YET) 

[Rodger Whitlock]

Beware the thugs!

Both Dicentra formosa and Oxalis oregana are rampant growers that most people will later regret planting. You have been warned!

As for the pink Trillium ovatum, that's the ordinary color change that takes place once a flower if pollinated.

Did you, by any chance, see Achlys triphylla, the "vanilla leaf"? It's an epimedium-vancouveria sort of plant and very handsome. The leaves develop a vanilla scent on drying due to the formation of coumarin (iirc). Not usable in cooking.

[Tony Willis]

Rodger

we have both the dicentra and the oxalis in the garden. The oxalis is a bit of a spreader but the dicentra is not a problem.It was good to see a couple of basic garden plants which are grown without 'improvement' in the wild.

It is a nice feature of the trilliums that they turn pink after pollination,it adds to the variety.On the coast we were towards the end of their flowering period and most were pink but up on the way to Crater Lake they were much later and all newly opened and still white

We did not see the Achyls but did see Vancouveria which was not in flower.