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Ceanothus, or wild lilac, normally a late winter or early spring blooming native plant, should begin blossoming this month in some spots (Mission Trails Regional Park for one) around coastal and inland San Diego County. This is due to the significant rains we have had so far this winter season. Blue- and white-flowering varities of ceanothus are common wherever native sage-scrub and chaparral vegetation grows, from the bluffs of Torrey Pines, to the edge of the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Acacias, festooned with myriads of fluffy yellow blossoms, are brightening streetsides, freeway embankments, and backyard gardens throughout the San Diego area this month. Although many acacias are native to subtropical regions, nearly all we see today in San Diego were introduced from Australia. Anza-Borrego's native acacia (A. greggii) is the notoriously thorny "catclaw," known by early desert pioneers as "tear-blanket" and "wait-a-minute bush."
Ceanothus, or wild lilac, normally a late winter or early spring blooming native plant, should begin blossoming this month in some spots (Mission Trails Regional Park for one) around coastal and inland San Diego County. This is due to the significant rains we have had so far this winter season. Blue- and white-flowering varities of ceanothus are common wherever native sage-scrub and chaparral vegetation grows, from the bluffs of Torrey Pines, to the edge of the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Acacias, festooned with myriads of fluffy yellow blossoms, are brightening streetsides, freeway embankments, and backyard gardens throughout the San Diego area this month. Although many acacias are native to subtropical regions, nearly all we see today in San Diego were introduced from Australia. Anza-Borrego's native acacia (A. greggii) is the notoriously thorny "catclaw," known by early desert pioneers as "tear-blanket" and "wait-a-minute bush."