Posted on April 20, 2025 by North Coast BBQ
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The countdown continues!
Hoffman Wonder Garden Plant Sale
SAT, APR 26th
10-12pm
Inside the Hoffman Center for the Arts
As we continue the roll call of eye candy available at Saturday’s plant sale (scroll down for links to our previous posts), today’s specials are Clarkia ssp. lindleyi (farewell to spring) and Gilia capitata (blue thimble flower). To know them is to want them, particularly if you want them back every year.
The clarkia selection we’re offering is definitely our showiest and longest-blooming native annual. Likely you’ve seen them swaying in the breeze along Laneda Ave in our manzanita bed.
The plant’s iridescent pink cups start opening in late May and come and go for at least two months. They appear delicate but that’s just a ruse; these wildflowers are tough and tenacious, setting lots of seed that bloom the next year. Our crop is planted in gravel, where set seeds can slumber undisturbed.
If blue’s your color, you must plant gilia. It goes by many common names but you need only remember “blue wildflower” when you come to the sale.
The picture below tells you why you want to have it (indeed, lots of it) but you might also like to know that if you spoil it just a bit, say in good garden soil with some watering, the flowers may well be bigger and bluer than those in the deliberately dry WG gravel bed.
FYI wildflower fans, we’ll also be selling ‘Pretty in Pink’ CA poppies and party yellow Madia elegans which, left to seed a year, will look much like a field of miniature sunflowers among the other wild beauties in your garden.
Previously mentioned sale plants:
www.northcoastbbq.com/2025/04/19/wonder-garden-plant-sale-the-plant-previews-begin/
www.northcoastbbq.com/2025/04/20/wonder-garden-plant-sale-plant-preview-2/
