I love to grow vegetables but I hate to harvest. I love to start start vegetables from seed. Even before the first set of leaves unfurl, I’m dreaming about planting each seedling in my raised garden beds.  I carefully labeled everything so I can track who grows where… I visit my garden every day, looking…

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California poppies

Southern California’s hillsides are ablaze gorgeous tapestries wildflowers – orange poppies and ground pinks, golden fiddlenecks and bluebells, and more! if you plan to go in search of wildflowers, please know that those flowers are in fragile native habitats you can destroy simply by walking through them. Watch Nan Sterman’s video about wildflower etiquette before you go, so you can enjoy the flowers without killing them.

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