In SOUTH PASADENA, I worked with home owners to fit poppies into their landscaping scheme. Growing conditions involved sprinklers, professional gardeners, dense soil, and tree cover. |
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Battling dense soil, tree cover and sprinklers. | After an encounter with a lawn mower. Though it was not difficult to get permission from homeowners, not all homeowners communicate regularly with their gardeners. | This family lived in California for four generations. The poppies were watered by a professional gardener. | These residents kindly allowed poppies to bloom under the rose bushes. | South Pasadena Nature Park. | Poppies on this traffic island survived into 2009 and have been blooming almost continuously from March to July. |