Tempus adest floridum, surgunt namque flores
— Carmina Burana, CB 142, 12th c.
Vernales mox; in omnibus immutantur mores.
Hoc, quod frigus laeserat, reparant calores;
Cernimus hoc fieri per multos colores.
Sambucus mexicana — elderflowers
Blossom time’s a-comin’ fast, rilin’ all them flowers.
— ‘Tujunga Wash Carol,’ trad., SFV. Recorded by VVV, Easter, 2020
Spring gets into everything, with her eerie powers.
“Rainy Season’s gone at last! Sun’s out! Tanning weather!”
Scrub greens bronze, turn pink, red, gold, purple, brown-as-leather.
NEW TO THE VIEW! A strain of Rosa californica — wild rose — but with ruffled white flowers
Laurel sumac; eponym of the canyon and the boulevard.
Buckwheat 
Ice plant
Holly-leaf cherry 
‘When it’s Cherry-Blossom Time In Tujunga” 
…the rest of the chorus writes itself. 
How’d ya like them drupes?
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore 
NEW TO THE VIEW! 
Erect shrub, not a vine 
Lonicera interrupta 
Chaparral honeysuckle. WINNER OF THE EASTER PARADE!
Sagebrush –the soul of scrub. 
Graceful like seaweed 
Mountain mahoganies JUST setting catkins 
Females have pretty yellow flowers, but this year seems a sausage-fest.
Sweet desert acacia 
Yin and yang, deerweed and white sage.
The Valley Village View 