While "flowers" and "January" don't often appear in the same sentence together, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, you can find floral splendor around Southern California, even on the coldest days.
Descanso Gardens observes a January tradition, one that will come to fruition — or "flower-ition," if you prefer — in the later part of March: The planting of thousands of tulip bulbs. Make that "thousands and thousands": Staff members and volunteers have planted around 30,000 bulbs in years gone by, but that number increased in 2025.
Some 35,000 tulips-to-be went into the rich garden soil over the third week of January, just days ahead of a much-anticipated rainstorm sweeping into the area.
"Tulips are weather-dependent" is the word on a Descanso Gardens social post, and these are good words to heed. Still, if you want to keep track of how the tulips are doing, the destination shared a "Tulip Timeline" of what you can expect, bloom-wise.
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