The deserts of southern
California erupted in color last weekend as a carpet of purple sand
verbena, white dune evening primroses, orange poppies and other
wildflowers emerged in a super bloom that one ranger called
“flower-geddon.”
“This kind of huge bloom
happens maybe once a decade,
” says Jim Dice, research manager at the Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center who hasn’t seen so spectacular a bloom since 2005.
” says Jim Dice, research manager at the Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center who hasn’t seen so spectacular a bloom since 2005.
Spring made an exuberant entrance after an unusually wet winter and consistent rainfall through 2016 after a five-year drought.
Much of Southern California teems with flowers, but the 630,000-acre
Anza-Borrego State Park is alive with color. The nearby community of
Borrego Springs more than doubled in size as 5,000 people poured into
the area on Saturday, an influx that filled motels, prompted the sheriff
to close miles of road, and sparked a fistfight over a pork Cubano.
If you can’t make it to
SoCal, take out your phone and open Instagram, because it has almost as
many photos of the blooms as Anza-Borrego has flowers. Check out #superbloom, #superbloom2017, and #eschscholziacalifornica to get started. And if you go to the desert, you might want to bring your own sandwich.
No comments :
Post a Comment