We are starting to heat up here in So Cal -haven't seen many Monarch butterflies yet even though I have a lot of milkweed in bloom in the front and back - bees have returned, though, and I caution everyone heating to the far back of my yard to be careful.
I have my own super bloom of California poppies going on - they are all volunteers:
This is my George Burns rose.
And Trumpeter. I had the tree trimmers cut back my eucalyptus trees so this would bloom.
And this beautiful iris, that I got as a rhizome from a friend and decided to come up in my rock garden.
I caught someone stealing flowers - and I think succulents - from my median yesterday and ran out as fast as I could with my dogs - I told her NOT to do that, some had already been pulled up. I planted those for the neighborhood, not for her to come and take. She was apologetic, but I know things have been stolen out of there before.
One of my neighbors had a thief go through his front gate, into his gated yard and cut down ALL of his sunflowers last year. All caught on his Ring camera.
I love the volunteer poppies! Wish I had native plants that pretty that would pop up here.
That people are stealing flowers and plants is just terrible. I’ve never heard of such a thing.
My sister lives in Palm Springs. Cactus theft is a huge problem, with fat golden barrel cacti being the favorite. A landscaping crew will plant them, and another crew will come along and dig them up and resell them. Similar problems plague construction sites.
Beautiful as always! The only Iris I have are 'Cat's Eye' which I got as a Freebie with a Jung order about 5 years ago, They're blooming right now and have turned into a big CLUMP that needs dividing. They're a Dwarf Bearded Iris:
