The plants identified in Southern California Wildflowers grow in a large area that includes the valleys, coastal mountains, and coastal plains of Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Orange and Ventura Counties and many other nearby places."Steven Hartman...
This floral shop handled all the celebration of life flowers for our Aunt Millie. Coming from San Diego as a event planner/florist of large events I had high expectations of what I wanted to see the day of. I admit I was reluctant to give up control however working with Connie Helzer sh...
Neither had we, until recently. It’s only the second-largest state park in California (and simultaneously a national monument), but it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere: halfway between San Diego and Palm Springs. You have to WANT to go there. The Mate and I went on two glorio...
go” – the land of fire – for the vast spreads of poppy blooms that covered the land. Afterwards, Spanish missionaries and European settlers discovered the interior of California blanketed with enormous pastures of spring wildflowers extending hundreds of miles from San Francisco to San Diego....
SAN DIEGO - JULY 24: Wrestler Christopher Daniels attends IESB.net's Wrath of Con during Comic-Con 2009 held at Hard Rock Hotel on July 24, 2009 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images) March 24th - Steve Ballmer ...
Monkey flowers are a showy California native plant.California Diplacus species These guys are general drought tolerant woody perennials that go summer deciduous under stress. (McMinn separated them from Mimulus in the late thirties, and I've keep the nomenclature.) Diplacus aurantiacus, Orange Bush...
The California pitcher plant(Darlingtonia californica) is called by various names including the Cobra Lily and the Cobra plant. It is a carnivorous plant native to Oregon and Northern California. This flower has leaves that can resemble a cobra or a pitcher. These leaves can be yellow or even...
California Everlasting Smells like maple syrup! Deerweed These delicate blossoms are the color of sunset. Yucca An example of the stalk from far away and close-up. Bladder Pod This Is NOT a Wildflower This plant has to be filed under “Most Mistaken for a Native Wildflower.” It’s not!
Desert areas where native plants have less competition are awash in wildflowers. Sand verbena, desert sunflowers and desert primrose recentlydazzled onlookers along Henderson Canyon Road in Borrego Springs, an area famed for wildflowers in San Diego County. However, thepeak for those ...
In Albuquerque we had irises everywhere, here in San Diego it seems like I don't see them much, our predominant landscaping flower being of the tiger lily variety. I always enjoy learning the various uses of plants. We tamper with nature at our own risk, because these plants provide so ...