{"id":24125,"date":"2017-04-09T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24125"},"modified":"2017-04-09T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T23:29:05","slug":"flower-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/flower-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Curb Your Flower Enthusiasm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cowflower.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pictured (left) is the recent Daffodil Hill season in Volcano, Calif. Lasting only a few weeks beginning on March 17, 2017, the attraction was closed several times due to dangerous conditions caused by\u00a0rain. The\u00a0owners of the farm graciously \u00a0welcomed the public to their private land\u00a0where millions of\u00a0daffodils spring up each Spring. And now they&#8217;re posting a warning: &#8220;We&#8217;re closed. Entering without permission\u00a0is considered trespassing.&#8221; People have been\u00a0climbing fences\u00a0and getting on the property\u00a0&#8212; and the owners say that makes them sad.<\/li>\n<li>In the California desert the enthusiasm to spot wildflowers recently caused the National Park Service to issue alerts that roads were backed up with\u00a0throngs of people coming from L.A. Then came another alarm. Enthusiastic flower lovers are trampling the flowers in their zeal for\u00a0selfies and\u00a0pictures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Flower opportunities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lancaster-poppy-festival.html\">California Poppy Festival<\/a> in Lancaster April 22-23, 2017. Check flower alerts before going.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/porterville-iris-festival.html\">Porterville Iris Festival<\/a> on April 22 should be exceptional as the flowers are grown commercially.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/carlsbad-flower-fields.html\">Carlsbad Flower Fields<\/a>\u00a0are open through May 14.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/arvin-flower-festival.html\">Arvin Wildflower Festival<\/a> runs April 27-30 in Kern County.<\/li>\n<li>Eureka&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/eureka-rhododendron-parade.html\">Rhododendron Parade<\/a> on April 29 celebrates local &#8220;rhodie&#8221;\u00a0flower season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured (left) is the recent Daffodil Hill season in Volcano, Calif. Lasting only a few weeks beginning on March 17, 2017, the attraction was closed several times due to dangerous conditions caused by\u00a0rain. The\u00a0owners of the farm graciously \u00a0welcomed the public to their private land\u00a0where millions of\u00a0daffodils spring up each Spring. And now they&#8217;re posting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}