![]() ![]() They often come after a drought during a year of El Niño, which typically drops strong winter rains on the region. Superblooms probably happened about once a decade during the last few hundred years, according to reports compiled by early colonizers, botanists and newspapers. The Spanish colonist Juan Bautista de Anza wrote in 1774 that “fields as verdant as they are flower-covered touch the very waters of the sea”. Indigenous groups also ate the poppy as food – boiling or steaming the whole plant. There is evidence that Indigenous tribes such as the Cahuilla and Serrano have celebrated springtime blooms of chia, alongside other colorful plants, which they also used fire to cultivate. While debate over how to balance appreciating the superbloom without overwhelming it has intensified in recent years, it reflects concerns about society’s creep into wild places that date back more than a century, particularly during periods of intense growth in the Los Angeles area. Photograph: Jessica Christian/APīut the crowds also can make their own paths through sensitive areas, causing damage and threatening the future of the phenomenon. After a winter of record-breaking amounts of rain and snow, wildflowers flourish along the trails of Shell Ridge Open Space in Walnut Creek, California. ![]()
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