California poppies and monarda growing side-by-side at Gaia's Garden. They are both medicinal and they both attract pollinators, which is part of why we keep them together.

California poppies in flower at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas with monarda growing tall alongside, both medicinal plants in the same bed

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 Monarda to its side.