‘Sendero del Sol’ Artist’s Palette Venue Blooming with Native Wildflowers at Oak Glen Preserve

Purple’s Owl Clover featured at The Artist’s Palette / Southern California Montane Botanic Garden, Oak Glen Preserve

For Immediate Release
June 7, 2024

YUCAIPA, San Bernardino County — The Wildlands Conservancy is pleased to announce its Artist’s Palette wildflower venue ‘Sendero del Sol’ or ‘Trail of the Sun’ is now in bloom at Oak Glen Preserve’s Southern California Montane Botanic Garden. This 6-acre wildflower venue features a “sun” with 100-foot rays comprised of native yellow and white wildflower species — tidytips, fiddleneck, popcorn flowers and gilia — surrounded by a blue-purple “sky” of baby blue-eyes, desert bells, purple owl’s-clover, globe gilia and tansy-leaved phacelia.

“The purple owl’s clover is doing particularly well. If you look closely, one can see the little owl’s heads, with the projecting flowers being the owl’s eyes and ears. Combined with the sky-blue baby blue eyes, they make a beautiful “sky” around the yellow “sun” on the Artist’s Palette venue.”  — Garden Director Tim Krantz, The Wildlands Conservancy

A stunning sight to behold for nature lovers and wildflower enthusiasts, this spectacular bloom will continue through the month of June. Visitors can walk meandering paths throughout the Artist’s Palette to view an array of native wildflowers. Visitors may also choose to walk the 2.5-mile Stream Trail loop nearby along a creek through the black oak and box elder woodlands, stopping for cold apple cider and apple pie afterward at Los Rios Rancho.

Oak Glen Preserve and its Southern California Montane Botanic Garden are open daily from 8 am to 5:30 pm located at 39611 Oak Glen Road in Oak Glen, CA 92399. Sycamore tree-shaded picnic tables are located throughout the garden. Parking and admission are free.

For further information, please contact the Oak Glen Preserve office at 909.790.3698 or visit WildlandsConservancy.org.