I noticed a flash of orange among some dyckia leaves in the front center bed yesterday ...

I then recognized it as Orange flameflower. Several years ago, (six, seven, who knows?) Linda invited me to meet her on I 10 across from Costco to rescue plants from a site soon to be an apartment complex. One of those plants was Flameflower which we found growing in a large open area in shallow black 'soil' with their roots near slabs of limestone. I planted them along the 'hell strip' and they came back for a year or two and then no more -- until now!

It's amazing that the seed got from there to 50 ft away to bloom five years later. Or were the seeds in the soil around the dyckia that Eric passed along? Doncha' love surprises -- however they arrive?