Pacific Grove Guide - 2024

Purple-pink owers, the South African drosanthemum oribundum, a type of ice plant blooming along the Paci c Grove Coastline in late spring is also called the Magic Carpet by locals and visitors. " The Magic Carpet " Every spring from April to June, a purple carpet of the South African drosanthemum oribundum, a type of Ice plant, lls the coastal landscape from Lovers Point to Esplanade Street in Paci c Grove. Many people also know it as the "magic carpet”. Gardener and self-styled adventurer Hayes Perkins (1874–1964) transformed a poison oak-covered ocean blu in Paci c Grove, California into a dazzling springtime carpet of uorescent-purple blooms.