Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

Consider planting wildflowers like black-eyed Susan, red poppy, and purple coneflower ... summer to prolong blooming and minimize seed formation. Wild flowers are easy to cultivate in your backyard.

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 ...