2011-06-26 Yard

A couple of things around the yard.

Herpicum armerioides. The first flower from seed started in Fall 2009.


Geranium incanum. The first flower from seed started in Fall 2009.


My Magnolia macrophyllum asheii blooms every year, despite the fact that the tree is only 5ft tall. The flower lasts for 2 full days and smells great.


One of my Protea lacticolor plants started in 2007 has its first bud! A flower will open some time between October and February probably. We'll see.


The rest of the Sarracenias are blooming, late as everything is this year. This is the weird flower of Sarracenia leucophylla 'Tarnok' which is a "double flowered" cultivar.


The much more symmetrical flowers of Sarracenia rubra jonesii.


The clouds were very thin allowing a 22 degree halo around the sun.


The Stewartia pseudocamelia had quite a few flowers this year. Planning on planting it this Fall!


Thalictrum aquilegifolium.


Penstemon eatonii started last year from seed.


A large flowered Penstemon started from seed from Southern Oregon.


Another Penstemon from Southern Oregon with much smaller flowers. If anyone knows the ID's of these two, I'd appreciate your input.


Last, a field that I particularly enjoy on my way to work.

2011-06-25 Southern Oregon

Woke up and took some more photos of Lilium bolanderi in the sun. Wish I could see them in my own garden... Maybe in 7 more years.




Lupinus lepidus var sellulus, I think.


Some Eriophyllum lanatum was particularly nice juxtaposed with a Penstemon.


A buckwheat. I think Eriogonum nudum.


Another new one, Orthocarpus bracteosus.


On the high ground, Viola cuneata.


Another first, Epipactis gigantea growing in the wet ditch alongside the road. Seen it in bud and seed a dozen times, but never open in the wild. Timing is everything.


A Ledum glandulosum var columbianum. I can't remember if this got lumped into Rhododendron. Bog grower.


A lovely Narthecium californicum, another bog grower. I managed to start some seeds of this plant last fall. They start out tiny and stay tiny for a long time. Steadily making improvement, though.


Again, out in the bog, Cypripedium californicum. Still in bloom a month later than usual, but most starting to fade.


Speaking of bog residents, Lisa.


After we left camp, we tried to drive to a mountain lake to see if the Lewisia were in bloom yet, it being a month later than usual. All we found was our road blocked by snow. We're going to drive back in August to see in anything is still blooming. Great views on the way, though.


After finding the road closed, we drove back down and found this enormous log that had fallen on the side of the road we had just been up not 10 minutes before. Lucky! We moved it off to the side.


I was hoping to find Ribes marshallii at the lake, but only found Ribes lobbii (and sanguineum, but who cares about sanguineum? Right?)


Prosartes hookeri. Fairy Bells.


Anyhow, back down from the mountain, we visited a local site on a hillside hoping for Calochortus howellii to be open. Only a couple were! But one is all I need. Remember, this is a federally threatened plant and only exists within a 17mi diameter circle in the whole world.




Then we went home to see the cat.

2011-06-24 Southern Oregon

We've never seen Southern Oregon past Early June, so this year we decided to mix it up. It was also incredibly rainy earlier!

We first stopped at a spot to try to find Calochortus coxii, a federally threatened lily, but the road was blocked with a gate. We walked along the road, but the mountain defeated us on the warm day. However, we saw lots of neat things along the way.

Clarkia amoena.


Brodiaea elegans, a lovely bulb. A new one for me.




Dichelostemma congesta, I think, a close relative of the Brodiaea.


Another relative, Triteleia ixiodes, I think. The Oregon Plant Atlas wants to call it T hendersonii, though.


The whole slope at one point was covered with Eriophyllum lanatum, Oregon sunshine.


In a bit of shade, Iris chrysophylla.


Collomia grandiflora. Very nice...


A woody shrub 5 to 6ft high. Looks like Vitex agnus-castus, but that's not native. ID anyone?


After we had given up the hunt, we drove back down through shaded woods to find some Lilium columbianum. I was hoping that Lilium pardalinum would be open, but no such luck.


A Mountain Quail tried to outrun the car.


Back at camp, some of the old favorites. Antennaria suffrutescens.


A pink Penstemon. The only one I've see in that area. ID?


To compare, the standard blue.


Senecio macounii.


One of the real reasons we visited during late June: Lilium bolanderi. I'd seen it a dozen times in seed or in bud, but never open. Beautiful.

Orange.


Red.


A look down the river near sunset.

2011-06-20 Cannon Beach

We do go out and have fun occasionally. We aren't always working in the yard, I promise. Just mostly.

Cannon Beach was nice and sunny.


That is all.