All green after the rains

Here is our front yard today.

After the lovely rains we experienced a couple of weeks ago the main native patch is lusher than ever.

The patch is the area closer to the street.

You can see lambs ears, lavender shrubs, native grasses, buckwheat (especially the Seacliff buckwheat that is the large clump in front of Berzerkely salvia that is in full bloom with lovely magenta colored flowers), and in the back right corner of the patch, the Ray Hartman ceanothus shrub is currently 5 feet wide x 6 feet high.

On the side of the yard I'm cultivating another native patch with more buckwheat, salvia, Pacific asters, lambs ears, and lots of California poppies. The green expanse is not a lawn, but a ground cover wildflower that produces tiny lavender colored flowers that attracts bees and other pollinators. Still trying to figure out the name of the wildflower.

This is where the poppy islands spread in the late Spring. Since we don't water this area, all of that green was brown dirt with dried vegetation until the rains came and soaked the soil.