{"id":22121,"date":"2016-02-18T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2016-02-18T00:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:54:27","slug":"spring-flower-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/spring-flower-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Best Spring Flower Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/flwfesti.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Volcano&#8217;s Daffodil Hill; San Francisco&#8217;s Pacific Orchid Expo (nation&#8217;s largest); and Sierra Madre Wistaria Festival (world&#8217;s biggest wistaria plant)<\/p>\n<p>Desert park rangers have fingers crossed\u00a0that the wildflower\u00a0blossoms will offer\u00a0the best display in years. You don&#8217;t have to head to Joshua Tree or Death Valley to see nature&#8217;s beauty, however. This list barely\u00a0scratches the surface of flower shows and events that span the state this spring 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-tulipmania.html\">TULIPS<\/a>: San Francisco Tulipmania Feb. 13-21<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-camellias.html\">CAMELLIAS<\/a>:\u00a0Temple City Feb. 26-28 |\u00a0Sacramento March 5-6 |\u00a0 Santa Clara Feb.\u00a021- 22 |\u00a0Pleasant Hill March 12-13 |\u00a0Modesto\u00a0March 19-20<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-orchid-festival.html\">ORCHIDS<\/a>:\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0Feb. 26-28\u00a0|\u00a0Santa Barbara March 4-6 |\u00a0Arroyo Grande April 2-3<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/daffodil-events.html\">DAFFODILS<\/a>: February-March: Woodside, Fortuna, Julian, Corona del Mar, Livermore, Murphys, Volcano<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/sierra-madre-wistaria.html\">WISTARIA<\/a>: Sierra Madre Wistaria Festival March 13<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/carlsbad-flower-fields.html\">RANUNCULUS<\/a>: Carlsbad Flower Fields March 1-May 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Volcano&#8217;s Daffodil Hill; San Francisco&#8217;s Pacific Orchid Expo (nation&#8217;s largest); and Sierra Madre Wistaria Festival (world&#8217;s biggest wistaria plant) Desert park rangers have fingers crossed\u00a0that the wildflower\u00a0blossoms will offer\u00a0the best display in years. You don&#8217;t have to head to Joshua Tree or Death Valley to see nature&#8217;s beauty, however. This list barely\u00a0scratches the surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}