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Article: A TRUE GOLDEN STATE OF SUN, YELLOW FLOWERS.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1996
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Byline: Joshua Siskin
In Los Angeles, spring is welcomed in February with tapestries of yellow and gold flowers. Just the other day, I counted more than a dozen trees, shrubs and vines blooming in radiant emulation of the solar emanations that are already here, warming us and our gardens, even as cities in more northern climes are still sunless, frozen and gray.
Plants with yellow flowers are more likely to originate in warm climates than in cool ones. Research has revealed that the first blooming plants may well have had sun-colored flowers, as if to acknowledge the light-giving source that makes vegetative life possible on Earth.
The floral ...