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Spring Flowers in San Francisco 2026

Everyone gets dazzled at the sight of spring floral colours

Best time: March–May

Flowers thrive in San Francisco throughout the whole year, yet every season has its blooming attractions. Spring is a blooming season of bowl-like golden-orange California poppies, many-colored tulips, brilliant rosy-violet fuchsias and tender dogwoods flowers. California poppies are most abundant in San Francisco Botanical Park, whereas the flowerbeds of densely growing yellow, pink and purple tulips may be found around the windmills on the western edge of the Queen Wilhelmina Garden.

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