• California’s official state flower, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), is celebrated every year on April 6, California Poppy Day. • The California poppy has been the state’s official ...

Watch how a California poppy flower plant was growing from a seed to blossoms. A poppy seed was randomly chosen from a sunset ...

Poppies are among the easiest plants to grow from seed. You scatter their seeds over the surface of the earth and let them sprout. This assumes, of course, that there will be a modicum of rain after ...

The California Poppy isn’t the only botanical symbol of the The Golden State. Did you know there is an official state grass? You can show your state pride by growing a few on your own property. The ...

I can’t deny that one of my most pleasurable experiences is discovering a plant in my neighborhood that is not included in the “Sunset Western Garden Book,” widely considered to be the gardeners’ ...