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California Native Wildflower Mix for 2022

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What's in the Wildflower Mix? Mountain Garland (Note: all photos from my garden #GreerDucky_GNGT . Many more photos & info on the #GrowingNativesGardenTour and also on the CNPS Garden Ambassador page ) by Cynthia Typaldos email myfirstnamemylastname @ gmail.com home office 867-8875 (area code 408) cell 215-8406 (area code 650) Mountain Garland - Clarkia unguiculata "Mountain garland, the tallest of the clarkias, rises on long slender flower spikes from 2-3' tall. In shades of bright pink, purple, and soft lavender, it is beautiful at the back of the flower border or with individuals rising up from a mass of lower-growing flowers. I like it in islands among chaparral shrubs, like Artemisia californica, California sagebrush. Blooming early to mid-summer, its flowering can be prolonged with successional sowings. Also, it is the host plant (required nursery) for the caterpillar of the "Day-flying Clark's Sphinx Hawkmoth" (Proserpinus cl