Craig & Sue Dremann's
Most Awesome & Excellent Spring
California March-April 2010
wildflower adventure.
This was the best wildflower
year in Southern California for the last 20 years.
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P.O. Box 361, Redwood City, CA 94064 (650) 325-7333
Hwy 46 and Flower Lane,
with Phacelia and California poppies in background.
California poppies, near the State poppy preserve.
![wildflowers](brodiaea.jpg)
Brodiaea, formerly one of California's most common
and widespread bulb grassland species, at the Cottonwood natural
area off Hwy 156 above the San Luis reservoir.
![wildflowers](chia.jpg)
Chia, an annual sage, at the edge of Lake Elizabeth off County
Hwy. N2.
![wildflowers](coreopsis_2010.jpg)
Coreopsis, highway 58 on eastern edge of Carrizo plains at junction
of Seven Mile road.
Desert candles, extremely rare, highway 58, 0.3 mi. west of 7-mile
road, north side of road.
![wildflowers](coreopsis2_2010.jpg)
Coreopsis along Hwy 58, with some purple Phacelia mixed in.
![wildflowers](goldfields_2010.jpg)
Goldfields, a mile east of Hwy 5 in Kern county, along Twisselman
Road,
about 10 miles north of the Hwy 46 or the Lost Hills junction.
![wildflowers](goldfield_close.jpg)
Goldfields, close up at Twisselman Road.
Layia, at the same spot as the Goldfields shown
above, at Twisselman Road.
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Layia, off Seven Mile road in the Carrizo Plains,
a few miles east of Soda Lake Road.
Owls Clover off Highway 58. This is the first wildflower
field you encounter along Hwy 58 as you are going west from I-5
toward US Highway 101.
Shooting star, about mid-way down Hwy 58, between
I-5 and US Hwy. 101. Now very rare state-wide, plants must grow
for seven years from seed, before they flower for the first time.
They have a wonderful fragrance. This stand along Hwy 58,
is the largest that I have seen in California, and should be protected
for the future.
![wildflowers](lupine_2010.jpg)
Bicolor Lupines, this is the last roadside wildflower you encounter
going west along Hwy 58, a few miles before Hwy US 101.
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2008, and 2009
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