Quarryhill Botanical Garden

Advancing the Conservation, Study, and Cultivation of the Flora of Asia

Plant of the Month

July, 2008

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Lilium sargentiae (QBG #1996.177)

 

Collected in Sichuan, China on October 6, 1996 by Mark Flanagan, Charles Howick, Tony Kirkham & William McNamara.  This elegant, trumpet-flowered lily is native to elevations between 500 and 2,000 meters in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and reaches a height of over 5 feet.  Its tepals are pure white to pale green near the base with striking brownish-yellow pollen on large oblong anthers.  An unusual characteristic of this lily is the profuse production of small, reproductively viable green bulbils along its stem at each leaf axil.

Welcome to Quarryhill
Botanical Garden, an
Asian woodland in the Valley of the Moon, founded in 1987 on the rolling hills above Glen Ellen, California.

Open to self -guided tours Monday through Saturday from 9 am - 4 pm.  Closed Sunday and all major holidays.  

Docent-led tours available with two weeks advance notice.  Every third Saturday open Docent led tours starting at 10 am.  Call for reservations,  707-996-3166.

For complete tour information see visitor info.
  

Events

 

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Announcement:

Centerpieces For Easy

Entertaining

 

The Next Flower Arranging workshop and demonstration has been announced for Saturday August 2nd here at the Garden.  This will be held in the conference room at the Main Office.  All participants are invited to take home the centerpiece that they create.  Please go to the events page for more information. Call (707) 996-3166 or email us at info@quarryhillbg.org if you would like to sign up for this great workshop. 

There will be morning refreshments and our beautiful Garden will be free that day to all participants.

$30 for Non members and $27 for Members

 


Have questions
for the garden staff?
Email them to
info@quarryhillbg.org

Commonly asked questions
will appear in our
2008 Summer Newsletter.