California Poppies have been blooming all over the area for a couple of weeks now, but the first one in our flowerbed just opened today. When spring begins next weekend, we expect to have many more of these. Click on the image to enlarge.
From Wikipedia:
The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in the western United States throughout California, extending to Oregon, southern Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and in Mexico in Sonora and northwest Baja California.
I’m hoping that we can raise them in Arizona, but if not I’ll be happy with the Red Bird of Paradise that grows there and not here.
The poppy is very nice indeed, then again so is the red bird of paradise. That one grows down in the Tucson area like weeds but beautiful weeds at that.
Yes and we just LOVE ’em!