Advice On Growing Calochortus sp.

[Weiser]

It'll just take a couple of more hours to look at these. You couldn't have anything more pressing to do, could you?

[Hoy]

I have never succeeded with any mariposa  

[Weiser]

Trond
They are a picky bunch. I have had failures with many of them also.   

[Hoy]

Well, I intend to try more but they are put on hold for a while!

[Nold]

I think this might be legible. (It does refer just to the winter-dormant hardy species.)

Bob

[Weiser]

Bob
That is a very cool letter!!! Thank you for sharing it.

[Booker]

What a wonderful keepsake, Bob.  Many, including my wife, would have disposed of it years ago.
I, on the other hand, would have treasured it for what it is ... a slice of botanical history.

At our group meetings of the East Lancashire AGS we always ask our lecturers to sign the admissions book and we now have a remarkable collection of 250 signatures from the great, the very much still alive and the very sadly long departed.

Duncan Lowe, George Smith, Frank Tindall and Wilf Kirby spring to mind from the late lamented department.

Imagine if the group had been formed earlier ... Roy, Jack and Joe Elliott, Will Ingwersen, Linc Foster, Reginald Farrer ... the possibilities are endless.   

[Nold]

I save little things like notes from Jim Archibald on seed packets, and I think I still have one of Vaclav Plestil's seed packets made out of cigarette rolling paper.

Bob

[McDonough]

What a wonderful keepsake, Bob.  Many, including my wife, would have disposed of it years ago.
I, on the other hand, would have treasured it for what it is ... a slice of botanical history.

I had some wonderful keepsakes... such as many letters between myself and Timmy Foster, with some input from Linc (but mostly Timmy), when I was working on some NARGS (ARGS at the time) bulletin articles (mid 1980s).  There was candid commentary relative to the naming of the double green-flowered Anemonella thalictroides; whether it should be Green Dragon or Jade Feather... I had the proof that Jade Feather was the decided upon name... but I no longer have it... subsequently 3 decades later 4 different interchangeable names now get used for the one plant!  I believe my letters fell victim to a couple home moves (cross-country), and being in a home where the basement flooded and lots of boxes filled with my papers and books were badly water-damaged.  Bob, your keepsake is wonderful, and now posted to NARGS Forum at large size that's easy to read, it's available to everyone; thanks for posting.

[Hoy]

I think this might be legible. (It does refer just to the winter-dormant hardy species.)

Bob

No way I can make such species grow here, at least not in the garden

[Nold]

The majority of winter-hardy calochortus get rain in the spring, occasional rain in summer, and none at all in the winter. Not exactly the easiest conditions to duplicate.
Winters in my garden are generally bone-dry, either with snow cover (which I detest) or without, which, fortunately for my mood, is the more common event.
I remember when we went to Oregon one year, we were told to bring our raincoats. No one had ever said that to me before. A raincoat? What on earth for? I don't even own one. (I have an umbrella, but it won't open.)

Bob