{"id":25765,"date":"2019-02-12T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25765"},"modified":"2019-02-12T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:29:10","slug":"celebrate-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/celebrate-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calflowfi.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tulips are in bloom in and around Pier 39 in San Francisco during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-tulipmania.html\">Tulipmania<\/a>, held each February. Walking tours are offered, or you can just sit down on a bench and enjoy the colorful flowers. Spring in California brings so many blossoms to enjoy. Here are a few to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Valentine&#8217;s Day Roses &#8211; are a traditional gift to give to loved ones or love interests on February 14.<\/li>\n<li>ARCADIA:\u00a0The Geranium Society Pelargonium Conference at Los Angeles County Arboretum &amp; Botanic Garden takes place on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/fe16.html\">Feb.16, 2019.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA CANADA: Pacific Camellia Society Show Feb.16-17, 2019 at Descanso Gardens is open to the public. | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-camellias.html\">camellias<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ALAMEDA:\u00a0 Alameda County Home &amp; Garden Spring Show Feb.15-17 at Alameda County Fairgrounds<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chinese-san-diego.html\">San Diego Chinese New Year<\/a> Feb.16-17 celebrates with fanfare &#8212; and flowers such as Chrysanthemums, usually sold at flower markets during these celebrations.<\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: Home &amp; Garden Show Feb. 22-25 at\u00a0 Kern County Fairgrounds<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-orchid-festival.html\">Pacific Orchid Exposition,<\/a>\u00a0A Legacy of Orchids Feb.22-24 at San Francisco County Fair Building Hall of Flowers<\/li>\n<li>COSTA MESA:\u00a0OC Home &amp; Garden Show Feb.22-24 at OC Fair &amp; Event Center | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/home-shows.html\">home shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MODESTO:\u00a0 Home &amp; Garden Show Feb.22-24 at Modesto Centre Plaza<\/li>\n<li>RIPON:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ripon-almond-blossom-festival.html\">Almond Blossom Festival<\/a> Feb.22-24 is one of several events and festivals celebrating the beautiful tree blossoms that soon yield fruits and nuts.<\/li>\n<li>CARLSBAD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/carlsbad-flower-fields.html\">The Flower Fields<\/a> March 1-May 12, 2019 at Carlsbad Ranch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/daffodil-events.html\">Daffodils in California<\/a> &#8211; usually in March, several locations feature hundreds of thousands of the yellow or white spring flowers. We have not updated this yet while waiting for announcements about the 2019 fields that are a &#8220;wait &amp; see&#8221; based on weather conditions!<\/li>\n<li>ARVIN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/arvin-flower-festival.html\">Wildflower Festival<\/a> Apr.26-28 at Smotherman Park<\/li>\n<li>LANCASTER: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lancaster-poppy-festival.html\">California Poppy Festival<\/a> Apr. 27-28 at Lancaster City Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulips are in bloom in and around Pier 39 in San Francisco during Tulipmania, held each February. Walking tours are offered, or you can just sit down on a bench and enjoy the colorful flowers. Spring in California brings so many blossoms to enjoy. Here are a few to consider: Valentine&#8217;s Day Roses &#8211; are [&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\/25765"}],"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=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25766,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions\/25766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}