Spring is usually peak poppy season for Southern California, but limited winter showers dampened the flower species’ chances.

The California Golden Poppy adds a rich luster to the countryside each spring and then disappears for another year.

California State Parks around Southern California have not experienced the delicate mix of weather factors needed for ...

The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, where its hills can turn orange with an abundance of poppies in bloom, received less rainfall in the fall and winter compared to 2017 and 2019 ...

These too are of a burning color — not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden ...

In any wildflower seed mix it is the germination percentage ... The mixes usually contain several annual poppies – corn poppy and the California poppy, which is one of my favorite poppy species.

and they are one of the few poppy varieties that do best when starting in a seed tray. However, the other popular species, such as Breadseed, California, and Shirley, prefer to be directly seeded.

Visitors have converged on Lancaster, California, to see the first such superbloom in four years. But to the dismay of officials, the poppies have not blossomed in the state park poppy reserve.