Heavy rains and the lingering effects of wildfires make this the prime time for wildflower superblooms in the Santa Cruz mountains.
, but there’s one silver lining: an explosion of colorful native wildflowers will soon paint the region’s forests, grasslands and coastlines.
“A volunteer we work with went up to the mountains on Sunday and was already seeing many bush poppies come up, and wow, it was a big bloom,” Jiménez-Helsley said. “So it’s starting to happen. Hopefully things continue to warm up and we’ll get some big blooms in the next couple weeks, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it looks.”
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