The California poppies are in full bloom just in time for the Poppyfest at Old Shasta Historic Park. The festival, a spring ...

They're now one of my favorite flowers. Iceland Poppies are tricky to grow ... of the soil and barely cover with a light dusting of sand or just leave them on top of the ground.

So that's why we are protecting them basically." This year there was a decent bloom of poppies, but the flowers were closed on the second day of the festival due to cold weather. "In February ...