Meadow Garden

Long ago, growing up in California, I remember hillsides in spring that would be orange colored from the California poppies that covered them.  I understand that is not the case so much anymore. Still though, the California poppy is a stunning flower.  A few are coming up in the meadow garden we planted east of the house, to the side of the driveway coming in.  In the fall, I planted a large amount of seed, from a good variety of annual flowers.  A few California poppies have come up, but not much else so far.  From the quantity of seed I scattered out there, we expected a more colorful showing.  Not long after planting we had a severe rain, probably washing much of the seed away.  It is still early in the season and we signs of more coming; we will have to see how it turns out this year.

For the time being we will have to be satisfied with the few California poppies like this one below.  Quite stunning.

The meadow annual flower garden is mostly green so far, a few scattered California poppies.