Super Bloom 2024

[Butch]

Here is a guide perhaps https://siliconvalley.hilltromper.c...06hhyCUosfjwFdwJvb_4EnsqsJaVE6_KD0L7EzspkN1us

Take pics and share. I command you!

 

[CDONA]

Pretty nice app, going for the science side. Who does the actual boots on the ground confirmation of what is still dry, starting to grow, growing now, and what has bloomed?
I'm watching rain forecasted for California Valley, this weekend, 1.6 inches.
Cell phone reception may be thin in the wilds of Ca.

This weekend will help, but I don't think we will get the rain we had last year.
I guessing about half or more of the total last year, down here in SLO county.
Dirt was dry in my last post "Flower Power Happening"

 

[CDONA]

KSBY 6 did a story last nite of Easter and the bloom.
This took place @ the nature site in California Valley

The flowers look to be a little taller here than Shell Creek (another week of growing), but still the small yellows, still no golden poppies inland more than 5 miles.

Tourists are talking disappointment, merely a bloom, not of the "super" bloom of last year.

 

[Cabrito]

Here is a shot from Panamint Valley last week

 

[budman]

Perty!!

 

[CDONA]

Caught a vid from Death Valley last nite news.
Ranger was giving advice as to how long the bloom will last.
Talking about wind drying out the hills after the storms roll thru. They don't expect much after two more weeks, with temps rising, unless the sky opens up to a wet April.

tic, tok,

 

[berth]

Last year, Santiago Canyon was afire in poppies. This year, there's none of that.

Blanket flowers are covering the freeway medians (and they're lovely), but nothing on the hills.

The Super Bloom in our backyard, and our singular poppy so far this year.

 

[stratslingr77]

More Panamint Valley...from this week:

Trona Pinnacles had some bloom too

 

[vaara]

Plenty of color along 25 between Bitterwater and 198, and through Walker Pass. And in the low desert too. Even in Arizona, where I am now.

 

[CDONA]

California Poppies are only along the coast, no more than 5 miles inland.
Been here in Morro, since Dec, when they started.
Thin this year for the back door ride into Cambria Pie day.
Haven't seen much from Bay Area bike pix.

 

[Cabrito]

Orland Buttes area is just starting up

 

[CDONA]

These poppies have been here since Dec, we have albino in white too.
No special care but weeding, only plants growing in the rocks.

 

[Cabrito]

A few more from this last weekend 4/5-7

Along the banks of the Black Butte Lake




Along Road 306 between Elk Creek and Stonyford

 

[SFMCjohn]

^^ awesome!

 

[budman]

Berry nice!!!