2015 Lemon Lily Festival Program

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Lemon Lily Festival

Idyllwild Nature Center Lemon Lily Hanging Metal Art by Dore Capitani (see page 9)

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Welcome to our sixth-annual festival

eveloping more entertainment and special vendors to celebrate the Lemon Lily, our fifth festival concentrates even more on the education and restoration aspects. This year features two days of speakers covering multiple subjects relevant to mountain ecology and conservation.

The Nature Center continues to work in partnership with the Idyllwild Garden Club to provide educational opportunities for Idyllwild school students and local residents.

Currently, weekend volunteers learn about invasive non-native species while removing threatening plant life along the creek in Idyllwild County Park Campground.

Working with the Idyllwild School Garden Club, young gardeners are given the chance to develop their skills while learning about our native flora and fauna.

The Thursday evening Lemon Lily Launch and Taste of Idyllwild fundraising event features live music and drinks, with an assortment of Idyllwild’s restaurants offer-

ing samplings of their cuisine.

Tickets for this combination of popular events are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

Purchase advance tickets at the Idyllwild Nature Center, 25225 Highway 243, on Monday and Tuesday, July 6 and 7 in front of the Post Office or call (951) 659-3850 to make reservations.

SATURDAY presents a full day of activities at the Nature Center. Pioneer Town continues to be popular with both children and adults, offering the opportunity to learn what life was like during a time when the Lemon Lily was prolific in Idyllwild.

The Pennyroyal Players, a group of women who convey the settlers’ experience in the American West through letters and song, will educate and entertain. Pony rides, doll and rope-making will round out the experience. Vendors, specifically selected to enhance the festival, are featured adjacent to the Nature Center, offering perfect memories of the weekend.

Nature walks and talks are featured throughout the

day, educating visitors on the plight of the Lemon Lily and other environmental issues in our San Jacinto Mountains.

If Mother Nature cooperates, visitors will have the opportunity to see the Lily in bloom on both specimen plants and in its natural habitat.

SUNDAY, most of Saturday’s events will be repeated at the Nature Center, culminating in a 3 p.m. drawing for this year’s original artwork

by Dore Capitani (featured on the cover of this program) and silent auction items.

As a way to enjoy all the excitement, we encourage visitors to park their vehicles in the center of town and ride the convenient shuttle. Let us do the driving so you can enjoy the festival.

We welcome everyone to this year’s sixth-annual Lemon Lily Festival and hope you will enjoy the experience as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

In the spirit of “Celebration, Education & Restoration,” – The 2015 Lemon Lily Festival Steering Committee

From our president:

On behalf of the Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks (FSJMCP) and our co-sponsors, the Idyllwild Garden Club, we welcome you to the Sixth Annual Lemon Lily Festival.

The festival is intended to provide joy, fun, listening pleasure and education for our visitors.

The festival is, of course, dedicated to one of our indigenous flowers, the lemon lily, Lilium parryi. The mission of the Lemon Lily Planning Group (Sandy Tatich, Jyoti Kintz, Scott Fisher, Ann Wehn, and Gail Spiegel) is to foster an appreciation for the threatened native lily (Lilium parryl), educate the public of its plight and relevance to Idyllwild, restore it to its historical range and benefit Idyllwild economically by promoting it as a visitor destination. We hope you succeed and hope you enjoy the festival.

The San Jacinto Mountain County Parks are managed by the Riverside County Parks and Open-Space District.

They include the Nature Center, Idyllwild County Park, Pine Cove Park, Hurkey Creek Campgrounds, McCall Memorial Equestrian Campground and Lawler Lodge.

Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to assist, promote, advance and develop the historical, scientific, educational and cultural aspects pertaining to San Jacinto Mountain County Parks. FSJMCP is guided by a board of directors that typically meets monthly and guides its affairs.

Membership is open to everyone. For more information contact the staff or volunteers at the Nature Center, located at 25225 Hwy. 243, Idyllwild or visit our website at www.idyllwildnaturecenterfriends.org.

– George Ray President, Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain Community Parks

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Garden club supports lemon lily restoration

By Neill Bell

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hen it comes to getting things in the ground, you can count on the Idyllwild Garden Club to do it. With more than 100 members, IGC has been a strong supporter of restoring Lilium parryi to its native San Jacinto Mountains.

Our local garden club has been involved in several ways. IGC was a founding sponsor of the Lemon Lily Festival and has given financial assistance since the beginning. The festival has proven to be a great way to educate the public about lemon lilies, in particular, and native mountain plants in general.

Club members volunteer at the festival, but more importantly have been key workers in restoration efforts. There is still a lot that we don’t know about lemon lilies, how best to propagate them and where and when they can grow.

Yes, we know that they like high elevations (the Idyllwild communities are in the lower limit of their range) and as important, that they thrive only in stream-side environ-

ments. We are still learning a great deal about where and how to plant lily bulbs so we may return these lilies to areas where they have been disturbed by human activity.

So, you will find Idyllwild Garden Club members actively planting bulbs in big pots, replanting them along the banks of Lily Creek — the stream that runs through the Nature Center and County Park Campground — and monitoring them to see how they are doing.

If you are interested in IGC and its activities, or would like to become a member, we invite you to visit www.idyllwildgardenclub.net. We’ll be happy to see you, with or without Potted lemon lilies blooming on June 21 at the Idyllwild Nature Center.

PHOTO BY HALIE WILSON a trowel in hand!

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Festival features an array of fun events Back for a third year, the Lemon Lily Festival’s, “A Little Bluegrass” features bluegrass and country/western musicians performing throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday.

Of course, the festival would not be complete without repeating its other successes from the years — guided, botanist-led walking tours and hikes, opportunities to view Lemon Lilies growing along local stream beds, Pioneer Town arts and crafts, and a Thursday evening, July 9, Lemon Lily Launch and Taste of Idyllwild (a combined kick-off fundraiser) featuring food and treats from local restaurants and music set at the Nature Center. More information about all of these events and the festival may be found online at www.lemonlilyfestival.com.

popular fundraisers into one peacethe Pennyroyal Players (www. ful but exciting evening. Join us at pennyroyalplayers.org). The group a lovely, idyllic for an evening of travels from Vermont to Califorcelebration in honor of the Lemon nia, bringing lively and touching Lily. Some of Idyllwild’s favorite musical portraits about those who restaurants will be on site serving settled the American West. Through samples of specially created dishes. story and song, “Piecin’ It Together” The evening will include live music reveals the humor and hardships with beverages available. Tickets at of the pioneering life — endured by $25 per person are available prior men, women and children. to the event at the Nature Center, in front of the Also returning this year is the ever-popular pony Idyllwild Post Office, or $30 at the door. The event rides for the kids, shooting gallery, working blackis from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 9. smith, gold panning, horseshoe toss, apple peeling, old-fashioned wash tub laundry and children’s For the kids crafts, including origami.

Our popular Pioneer Town will be part of the Lemon Lily Launch & Taste of Idyllwild festival events at the Idyllwild Nature Center.

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Educational speakers The Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival continues to evolve.

Honoring its commitment this year, we are happy to announce our festival guest speakers talking on a wide range of topics related to our local forest and unique mountain.

Saturday, July 11, at 1 p.m. and Sunday, July 12, at 1 p.m.: Toni Berthelotte, Garden Club member and festival steering committee member, will be giving a slideshow presentation and talk, “Life and Times of the Lemon

Lily.” This presentation will describe the life cycle of the Lemon Lily. Toni will speak on both Saturday and Sunday.

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Lemon Lily Festival Schedule

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All events will be held at the Idyllwild Nature Center 25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild, CA (1 MILE EAST OF TOWN CENTER) • Phone: 951-659-3850 vian arts, leather goods, jams & jellies, scrapbooks, headbands, scarves, hand painted THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2015 note cards, metal wall art, and much more. Food will be available. Guided walks will LEMON LILY LAUNCH/TASTE OF IDYLLWILD take place at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. You are free to explore the Nature Center trails

5-8 p.m. on your own.

Presale tickets $25/at the door $30 This year’s activities kick off with the Lemon Lily Launch/Taste of Idyllwild at the Nature Center, combining two fun and successful fund raising events. Activities include NATURE TALKS Talks by local experts covering multiple topics pertinent to our environment. live music, food, and beverages, including alcoholic drinks. Ten or more of Idyllwild’s 1 p.m. Toni Berthelotte – Past President, Idyllwild Garden Club restaurants will showcase special entries for the Taste of Idyllwild. Tickets for this event 2:30 p.m. Deborah Geisinger – Certified Arborist are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Purchase advance tickets at the Idyllwild Nature Center, 25225 Highway 243, in front of the Post Office (Monday-Tuesday (July 6-7, 2015) or call (951) 659-3850 to make reservations.

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Noon to 4 p.m. Local Band “That’s All Folk and More”

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A wide range of activities are planned for kids of all ages (yes, you too). Pioneer Town features old west activities including: rocking horses - live pony rides - horseshoe tossing – target gallery – roping - gold panning - blacksmithing – washboard laundry – knitting - apple peeling – flint knapping and more. Make your own activities such as yarn dolls, bracelets, key chains, t-shirts, giant soap bubbles, and much, much more!

Fun for adults include shopping at vendor booths and savoring tasty food, a silent auction and the raffle of a metal lemon lily sculpture by Dore Capitani. Explore the Nature Center by tagging along on guided nature walks, explore Lily Creek, see the bedrock mortars fashioned years ago by Mountain Cahuilla and learn about local flora and fauna. Enjoy scheduled informative talks in the auditorium. In the great outdoors, listen to the Penny Royal Players and the music of other entertainers.

The Pennyroyal Players musical theater performance, “Piecin’ It Together” songs and stories from the America West (pennyroyalplayers.org). Show times 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Price information Events at Nature Center require day use fee $3 adults and children age 11 and up; $2 kids age 3 to 10; $1 for dogs

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Talks by local experts covering multiple topics pertinent to our environment.

11 a.m. Deborah Geisinger – Certified Arborist 1 p.m. Toni Berthelotte – Past President, Idyllwild Garden Club

*Schedule subject to change without notice.

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FREE SHUTTLES - July 11 & 12, 2015: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Parking is limited at the Nature Center. Leave your car in town and catch one of the free Shuttle Vans provided by the Park District that will be shuttling passengers between Town Center and the Nature Center continuously. Look for the Shuttle Stop sign located in town between the Idyllwild Monument and the Idyllwild Inn. Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks representative will be available to assist you.

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Lemon lilies and native plants will be on sale with advice from the UCR Master Gardeners. Vendors will offer a variety of candies, jewelry, ceramics, essential oils, Peruvian arts, leather goods, jams & jellies, scrapbooks, headbands, scarves, hand painted note cards, metal wall art, and much more. Food will be available. Guided walks will take place at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. You are free to explore the Nature Center trails on your own.

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PIONEER TOWN – FUN FOR ALL – SMILES ABOUND

9 a.m.-4 p.m.

A wide range of activities are planned for kids of all ages (yes, you too). Pioneer Town features old west activities including: rocking horses - live pony rides - horseshoe tossing – target gallery – roping - gold panning - blacksmithing – washboard laundry – knitting - apple peeling – flint knapping and more. Make your own activities such as yarn dolls, bracelets, key chains, t-shirts, giant soap bubbles, and much, much more!

Fun for adults include shopping at vendor booths and savoring tasty food, a silent auction and the raffle of a metal lemon lily sculpture by Dore Capitani. Explore the Nature Center by tagging along on guided nature walks, explore Lily Creek, see the bedrock mortars fashioned years ago by Mountain Cahuilla and learn about local flora and fauna. Enjoy scheduled informative talks in the auditorium. In the great outdoors, listen to the Penny Royal Players and the music of other entertainers.

The Pennyroyal Players musical theater performance, “Piecin’ It Together” songs and stories from the American West (pennyroyalplayers.org). Show times 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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About the Lemon Lily Lemon Lily or Parry’s Lily, Lilium parryi, is named in honor of Dr. Charles Christopher Parry, a renowned botanist who was among the first to collect it in the summer of 1876.

Lilium parryi of the Family Liliaceae is a perennial herb that grows from a bulb with a stem reaching a height of 1.9 meters. It has scattered

or whorled leaves with very fragrant lemon-yellow, funnel-shaped flowers.

In Southern California it grows in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains, as well as Palomar Mountain.

Small populations can also be found in southeastern Arizona in the Santa Rita, Huachuca and Chiricahua

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mountains and in extreme northern Sonora, Mexico, in the Sierra Los Ajos.

The lilies inhabit springs, seeps, wet meadows and shady canyon bottoms along perennial streams at an elevation of 4,000 to 9,000 feet. Forest fires and subsequent erosion have severely impacted three populations in Arizona (Falk and Warren, 1994), and their populations have been negatively impacted by “flower pullers” in Palomar (Craig H.

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For more information about the Lemon Lily, visit Michael Charter’s site at www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/lemonlily.html.

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Natural history of our Lemon Lily

By Kate Kramer Botanist, San Jacinto Ranger District

The Lemon Lily, one of our most spectacular local wildflowers, is rare and uncommon but not on the endangered species list. This 3- to 5-foot plant with large showy yellow flowers and whorled leaves is found in mountain creeks from 5,000 to 9,000 feet in our Southern California mountains with a few — maybe two — populations in the mountains of Southern Arizona as well.

Today, this is where the lily is found, in scattered groups in the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains.

Moist habitats are key. Lily seeds need to be moist and cool to germinate and grow in the following year.

Seeds develop into scaly bulbs about an inch in diameter. When the bulb has accumulated enough energy, in three to five years it will produce a flowering stalk with one to nine or more fragrant yellow flowers.

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Plants in nature don’t appear to multiply by bulb; the extent of vegetative reproduction is unknown.

However, in culture, scales from the bulb can be removed and placed in a special soil mix to grow into individual bulbs. This is how nurseries from out of the area (in Oregon) produce Lemon Lilies that are available for purchase. Tissue culture is another way that seems to be successful as well. But it’s hard to cut up even one bulb to do this.

Lily enthusiasts world-wide know about the Lemon Lily; it has been used extensively in breeding programs to produce some of the most beautiful garden cultivars.

At least three lily hybrids have been developed by crossing the Lemon Lily with other kinds of lilies and then reproducing them by the methods mentioned; one is San Gabriel. This may be the way to direct our low-land lily lovers to plants that will grow in valley gardens — and are at least part Lemon Lily.

Genetically variable populations in the wild are

important for Lemon Lilies to persist; lilies must have a pollinator to produce seed. Available information suggests that sphinx moths (Hyles lineata and Sphinx perelegans) are the main pollinators. It makes sense; the Lemon Lily flowers are the most fragrant at dusk when moths would be flying. We really need to do a Lemon Lily “stake-out” and watch plants for a day and late evening to find out who is visiting our lilies here.

In one of the earliest floras of the San Jacinto Mountains, an observation was made of the incredible collecting pressures by admirers trying to get the Lemon Lily in the nursery trade. With so many bulbs removed from our mountains, it’s no wonder that the Lemon Lily is a rare plant. The drought in the 1970s may have dried up much of the lily’s habitat, as well; fluctuating water levels have affected lily populations in Arizona.

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Idyllwild metal sculptor Dore Capitani donated the original artwork featured on the cover. A raffle will determine who gets to take this piece home. Tickets are $1 and available at the Nature Center. The winner will be announced on Sunday, July 12 at 3 p.m. at the Nature Center.

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Why restore the lemon lily to Idyllwild?

By Dave Stith Amateur Botanist Harvey Monroe Hall conducted the first systematic survey of the plants in the San Jacintos. His flora, “A Botanical Survey of San Jacinto Mountain” was published in 1902. Of Lilium parryi he writes: “This lily, with its tall, erect stems and conspicuous flowers either clear yellow or peppered with black, is a great favorite with the tourists and campers who annually visit the mountain. It was only a few years ago that the showy blossoms were very frequently encountered with along all the streams and bogs from nearly the lower edge of the Transition Zone up to an altitude

of 9,000 feet, thus reaching into the lower part of the Canadian Zone. While it is now by no means rare, [it] is still only found in profusion only on the more remote parts of the mountain. That this is due entirely to the diligence of the bulb hunters is hard to believe, and yet one party took over 5,000 bulbs in a single season. Perhaps this, in addition to several consecutive dry summers, is responsible for the rapid depletion in their

forever removed from the mountain.

I wanted to see if it was still true that they could be found in profusion on the more remote parts of the mountain, or if conditions were now such that there was no hope of ever bringing them back. In 2009, I enlisted Tom Chester, along with some of our friends and colleagues, to help me count every Lemon Lily in Willow and Tahquitz creeks. We counted 2,662 plants, including new seedlings, immature plants that had not yet bloomed, flowering plants and plants in fruit with seeds. This appeared to be a healthy, reproducing population.

If they can still grow where they have not been numbers.” disturbed by people, I began to ask, “Why not in From this we can learn three things: 1) They Idyllwild?” if we just give them a chance. were once much more abundant than they are now; 2) the tourists who visited the mountain knew of them and; 3) thousands of them were dug up and

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Pennyroyal Players return Hold onto your hats and tune up your ears, the Pennyroyal Players are coming to the 2015 Lemon Lily Festival. This talented group of six women entertained audiences last year with their performance of “Piecin’ It Together.”

“Piecin’ It Together” uses storytelling and song to present portraits of people who settled the American West. Their experiences reveal some of the hardships, triumphs and humor that was part of the pioneering life in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The six talented women who perform “Piecin’” use song and stories within a framework of quilting, introducing us to people who were part of the frontier and immigrant experience.

This Pennyroyal production was inspired by the musical play “Quilters,” but the music is different. “I’m a folksinger from the 1960s, so I had to use traditional songs and folk music that was around in that period,” says director Anne Destabelle, who created this show when she founded the group in 2005.

Even if you were one of the lucky people who caught one or more of Pennyroyal’s four performances at last year’s Lemon Lily Festival, it won’t be the same this July. “The script continues to evolve,” says Destabelle. The group’s repertoire has also grown over the years and now includes “Romp Through the American Revolution” and “Songs and Stories of Stephen Foster.”

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Three for Joy is a Celtic music and Irish dance band made up of siblings: Angela Rose (8 years old), Joseph (9), and Dominic (11) Padula. With their fiddles, cello and mandolin, this lively and accomplished group plays traditional Celtic tunes—Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton—while weaving Irish dancing into their music.

These children have had the good fortune to hear a lot of traditional fiddle music from the beginning of their lives, listening to and learning from their cousins, the Wood family, who make up the phenomenal fiddle and dance band Celtic Spring.

Besides learning from their cousins, Three for Joy members also attend fiddle camps, where they are immersed in traditional music and learn from some of the best fiddlers in the world. In August, Three for Joy members will be attending Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School for the third time. In addition, they are very excited to be attending The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina for the first time, for which they received full scholarships.

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‘That’s All Folk’

“That’s All Folk” is a vocal group from Idyllwild Ca. They’ve all been in the music industry for many moons and have put together a well-rehearsed tribute to some of our favorite folk/rock artists from the ’60s, ’70’s and more. Their music is heartfelt with beautiful 3-part harmony. They are: Elaine Balkman, Bill Sheppard, John King, Lee Miracle and guest percussionist Craig Wills. Enjoy!

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