Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A. Please support the Wildflower Hotline.

The annual Open House events are scheduled at Prisk Native Garden for the next two Sundays, April 6th and April 13th from 1 to 4 pm. Please attend one of the Sunday dates or both! Visitors will learn about the 30-year-old Garden on a school campus in Long Beach that has a mission to engage children in nature’s joyful and restorative experiences. Overnight seemingly, because of mild warm temperatures following mid-March rain, there are colorful blossoms everywhere, with mo ...