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and a favorite spot for weddings. Before leaving, we perused the rustic nursery,
Just past The Cliff House along the bluff are where you can buy many of the plants on display. A
plants adapted to poor, rocky soils and salt-laden rusty red velvet sage and an Argentine bred ‘Amante
winds. These tough, often low-growing plants have tempted us, but we knew we had miles yet to go. So
adapted to the windswept, often fog-bound local. In we resisted, vowing to hunt for them online when we
Spring it’s alive with glowing California poppies and returned home.
other native wildflowers.

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