It’s California Wild Lilac

Day four of the purple flower project.     Did anyone catch on? If you did you win a smiling nod and a wink.

These beloved shrubs and

groundcovers turn many

Western hills blue in

Winter and Spring.

Poetry straight from the pages of The Sunset Western Garden Book.

I might add:

Bees love them,

gardeners love them,

deer won’t go near them,

they’re hard to photograph,

and they smell  just as sweet as lilacs, they’re

Ceanothus the California State Shrub!