The major storms that battered parts of the state of California this year were intense, disruptive, and in some cases, tragic; but many people must have remembered back to 2019 and anticipated a spring to remember.
Indeed, the new ‘Superblooms’ emerging across the state are so large and so colorful, they can be seen from space.
The LA Times talked to a scientist who pointed out that there is no natural definition of a Superbloom—they are rather a cultural phenomenon when humans decide enough flowers emerge at one time in one place.
“The California Department of Parks and Recreation recommends seven sites in Southern California where visitors can see the blooms, which have already arrived and, in many cases, are projected to continue for about a month,” writes the LA Times.
Parks and Rec staff are recommending that residents out enjoying the wildflowers should download the iNaturalist app to learn more about each flower species.
The knowledge of what a flower is, who its cousins are, when it emerges, and what species co-exist with it often fosters a closer appreciation and connection to the flower and the land itself, sometimes without the reader even knowing it’s happening.
Superblooms are among the best moments to appreciate the duality of nature which makes the Great Outdoors so spiritually fulfilling. If the beauty of a flower is in its brevity on the Earth, if the beauty of autumn leaves comes from their changing and eventual passing, then the beauty of a Superbloom arises out of the necessity of several years of drought.
During dry times, seeds released by parent plants can’t germinate due to a lack of moisture, but being the miracle of nature which seeds are, they lay dormant season after season until a refreshing and continuous rain causes several years’ worth of seed to sprout all at once.
A great day trip to start Superbloom viewing is Red Rock Canyon State Park, east of Bakersfield and about 120 miles from downtown LA, where several canyons are flush in yellows and blues.
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