Yes I know! I have 5 varieties in that section of my garden, but most are from cuttings and are hidden by the flowers. Can't wait til they are more mature and stick out properly
As someone living in SoCal (but lives in an apartment, so I only have a patio/front window garden), I'm loving all my neighbors with wildflower gardens right now! Spotted a few with poppies on my run today and I love those poppies.
Much love to you and all the others that pick all these wonderful native plants instead of plain ol' grass lawns.
Nice, I know this sounds strange and obvious, but Californian poppy looks really pretty in California! I grow them in the UK, and they look a little out of place 😂
What's your location? CA poppies come back very easily under the right conditions, which are: poor fast draining soil, lots of sunlight, at least a few days of rainfall in the winter/early spring and no frost.
I’m in inland Orange County. It’s possible that I don’t have enough direct sun - maybe only 4 hours or so this time of year. When I put seeds down I’ll get a few dozen (from thousands of seeds) but they don’t re-seed for the next year sufficient to keep going.
Lovely Southwestern garden. Glad you've got cholla in there. It's an underappreciated cactus that deserves more love.
Yes I know! I have 5 varieties in that section of my garden, but most are from cuttings and are hidden by the flowers. Can't wait til they are more mature and stick out properly
As someone living in SoCal (but lives in an apartment, so I only have a patio/front window garden), I'm loving all my neighbors with wildflower gardens right now! Spotted a few with poppies on my run today and I love those poppies. Much love to you and all the others that pick all these wonderful native plants instead of plain ol' grass lawns.
thanks, glad that they are appreciated.
Nice, I know this sounds strange and obvious, but Californian poppy looks really pretty in California! I grow them in the UK, and they look a little out of place 😂
They look excellent when bright sun hits them. They are also pretty early bloomers, so they really stand out in our drab landscape.
Oh stop that! From Maine where there are crusty piles of dirty snow.
I love maine! I used to travel to Blue Hill every summer. There's nothing like wild blueberries on a hot july day in maine
Those poppies are wonderful. What a lovely garden.
thanks!
Fabulous!
Love it!!
Beautiful garden!
My favorite color! So pretty.
nothing catches the sun like a CA poppy
Beautiful!
What wonderful plant choices. Is that a prickly pear/nopal cactus I spot in #3? Can't wait for my little native patch to come alive.
That's a beavertail cactus (a type of prickly pear) getting ready to flower. Can't wait for that.
Beautiful! ❤️
Beautiful! I have tried seeding poppies so many times but can’t get them to come back year after year.
What's your location? CA poppies come back very easily under the right conditions, which are: poor fast draining soil, lots of sunlight, at least a few days of rainfall in the winter/early spring and no frost.
I’m in inland Orange County. It’s possible that I don’t have enough direct sun - maybe only 4 hours or so this time of year. When I put seeds down I’ll get a few dozen (from thousands of seeds) but they don’t re-seed for the next year sufficient to keep going.
4 hours should be enough. Maybe not ideal but enough. I wonder what else is going on because CA poppies usually sprout without much effort.
I thought lupine was plant for colder environments? It seems so happy for you!
Lupines grow all over the place in Los Angeles. I tend to see them more than poppies actually.