March Showers and Spring Flowers
If you have a yard with fruit trees, you probably have noticed blossoms and bees lately. Or maybe your daily drives take you down roads where trees are in bloom, providing a spectacular springtime spread of color to remind you winter is on the way out.
Pictured is the California poppy bloom taken one perfect year at Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve. Each April the City of Lancaster celebrates this nearby state park and California’s state flower with California Poppy Festival. Interest in the spring desert bloom is intense, but unfortunately, not predictable.
As some Californians wrap up their weekend seeing the world’s largest blossoming plant, a wistaria in Sierra Madre, others anticipate the upcoming flower events throughout the state.
See Some Flowers
UPDATES:
- Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve (parks.ca.gov) Bloom Status Update as of March 16, 2018: Fiddleneck, slender keel fruit, and filaree are beginning to show their small flowers around the park. Several small poppy plants are growing alongside the Tehachapi Vista Point Trail, Antelope Trail South Loop, and Antelope Butte Trail. Two grape soda lupine bushes have started blooming on the Tehachapi Vista Point Trail. On the Kitanemuk Vista point, there are a few wild hyacinths. We are estimating that a small to moderate bloom will begin in about two to three weeks if the weather holds and if we don’t get too much frost or heat.
- Volcano’s Daffodil Hill March 16, 2018 Update: We just can’t seem to catch a break! Due to ongoing snow and rainfall we are still unable to open and will not be open for Dandelion Days. We will be sure to post updates as we can, but at this point it doesn’t look like we will be able to open for a while.
