Poppies!

Poppies galore! 
They are the state flower you know.

I don't often show the median up at Malta and O'Shaughnessy, but it really is looking good. With the help of the Supervisors office, I am trying to get the walk sign raised in the interest of safety. I prefer not to have to cut down the plants or worse...

From the picture right below here, you can see how a driver can see the crosswalk, but not the walk sign.

The California state flower is the orange color, but the cream color flower is not. I couldn't resist spreading lots of seeds last fall and here we are now reaping the benefits. I have been asked to collect some seeds for my neighbor here on the block. She especially was interested in this color. She calls it white- the seed packet says Buttercream.

I brought a truck load of plants to install today. Among them was this beautiful Agave americana variegata specimen. It came from the generosity of Dilyara in the North Bay. I think the name Buttercream for the poppies here, in this picture at least, makes perfect sense. Behind it you can see the Furcraeas and the large Agave americana from Joanna in El Cerrito- and peeking into the frame from the lower left is another agave- A. weberii.

I planted several Euphorbia characias (I think) from Channing, some Aloe striatula from Christy, some Aloe nobilis from Fanny, an Opuntia and a clump of Aeonium arboreum
from the South Bay. That is it as far as I can recall. It took me around 3 hours. I had one driver pause and exclaim a big 'thanks it looks great'.  That sure goes a long way for me. It makes it all worth while... To finish off the time there, I did lots of weeding. Below is the haul before installation.