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It is Christmas time! All the decorations are full on: the lights, the flowers, the tree, and yes, the wreath. Surely you have seen many different kinds of wreaths, some made with real plants, some plastic. Today, we are going to show you a very special one – a wreath that was made completely with California native plants.

Last year, 5 years after Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the “spaceship” design for the new Apple campus, the project finally finished and the new campus started its use. While the huge spaceship is undoubtedly the most striking element of the campus, there is another equally important yet less known feature.

Everywhere you go, flowers are blossoming! In the mountains, on the plains, around the corners of our neighborhood, they offer so much beauty and charm of the nature. Among them, these two flowers probably catch your eyes quite a lot: the tall Matilija Poppy (Romneya coulteri), and the splendid, golden California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica). Together, they are a tale of two flowers.

When it rains and all the raindrops fall on our roofs, have you thought about where the stormwater go to? Well, most of it just goes down the sewer, into the creeks and rivers, and eventually out to the ocean.

Wild flowers are in full bloom on Pacific Coast! Look at the fields full of wild flowers – what a beautiful view!

Beautiful blossom I planted a rockrose in our garden, in the San Francisco Bay area, about 2 years ago. Since then, it just remained a quiet small shrub. All leaves. No blossom. Never thought anything about it until a morning in March, after a full day of heavy rain and a pretty heavy rainy season brought by El Nino. Voila! flowers!