"Many people are riled because they say native plants are often low-growing species that bloom only for weeks, then look the rest of the time like scrubby weeds" (Nov. 18 San Jose Mercury News article).
Coyote Brush: "They're callin' me a Scrubby Weed!"
Scrub Oak: "You haven't got enough stature for that."
Evening Primrose: "Well, if they ever bothered to look AFTER sunset, they'd see me blooming like crazy—all summer too!"
Sticky Monkey-flower: "Hmmphff! I'd like to see some 'o them Petunias blooming out here in July"
California Poppy: "They'd be dead as sweetpeas in a snowstorm."
Farewell-To-Spring: "You know, all those Store Flowers were natives once."
California Lilac: "But they've forgotten their roots."