Do you live in CALIFORNIA? What is the best way to promote the
California Poppy 100th Anniversary? Search for "California Poppy
Project" on google.com to better understand my question. Use QUOTES
around the three words. Thank you.
Hello,
you're asking this question at the right time, since the planting
season
for California poppies is in the fall! Any poppies you want to see in
your April celebration should be planted soon.
According to legend early sailors named Calfornia "La Tierra del
Fuego,"
Land of Fire, for its rolling foothills carpeted with poppies. Legend
also
has it, according to the Catholic Sisters of the Holy Faith, that
Father
Junipero Serra and his mission fathers planted poppy seeds along the
El Camino Real, so that they could follow the fields of blossoms back
down
the California coast, and thus find their way back to the southern
missions
and Mexico.
My suggestion for your celebration would be to do a re-enactment
of the
Mission Father's journey, showing the padres flinging poppy seeds to
the
wind. You could do this now (the real planting season), or later, when
the poppies are blooming. Do this on a weekend, and you'll get some TV
news coverage. Then end up the journey in Lancaster, at the Antelope
Valley Poppy Preserve (blooms in early April) or the hills east of
Gorman, (blooms in mid-April)and do some celebrating there.
I gathered the information for this answser from the nuns who
taught me as a child, and from these two websites:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/poppy/faq.html
http://www.geobop.com/World/NA/US/CA/Flower.htm
There are also a couple of songs about the CA poppy, which you
might get some school children to sing for your celebration.
You can find info about those songs at:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/poppy/odds.html
I hope you like this idea. Looking forward to seeing more poppies
on the hills here near Highway 101, and also your event on the news!
Sincerely, Cath-ga
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