California poppies with the food forest at Gaia's Garden behind, late afternoon sun reaching through the trees. The poppies sit at the edge of the medicinal beds.

California poppies in flower at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas with the food forest visible behind under late-afternoon sun

Photographed April 27, 2026 in Gaia Devi Stillwagon's medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas's Ouachita foothills.

This is California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), grown in our medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas.

Tags: California Poppy flowering with the food forest behind it.