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She experimented with drought-tolerant trees and shrubs including lavenders and even bulbs like daffodils, but “I began to realize that so much of what I planted wasn’t doing well,” she said.

Just an hour and a half from Los Angeles there’s a mountain community where there are actual seasons: Warm summers, crisp autumns, snowy winters and resplendent springs complete with daffodils all around.

Expect charming tableaux featuring robins with fish swimming in their bellies or daffodils blowing bubbles, ethereal, neo-futurist landscapes, macabre portraits and everything in between.

RoozenGaarde, part of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, has over 50 acres of tulips and daffodils in its fields.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been mesmerized by butter-yellow daffodils and golden poppies bobbing in the wind from front yards in San Francisco.