REAL ESTATE 59 pacificgrove.org Purple-pink flowers, the South African drosanthemum floribundum, a type of ice plant blooming along the Pacific 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 floribundum, a type of Ice plant, fills the coastal landscape from Lovers Point to Esplanade Street in Pacific 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 bluff in Pacific Grove, California into a dazzling springtime carpet of fluorescent-purple blooms.
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