The atmospheric rivers are gone, but the water they dumped on Southern California has prompted dormant plants to bloom for the first time in years. It's like being reunited with old friends.
Flowers across Southern California are blooming enough to be seen from space. See the landscape transformed by spring.There’s a lot to appreciate about the growth around us. There’s a lot to learn from it, too.that resulted from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rainfall in Southern California varied considerably year to year, Yoder said. As a result, the region’s native wildflowers evolved to withstand periods of drought.
In periods of prolonged drought like we’ve experienced the last few years, many annual plants will allow only a selection of their seeds to flower. It’s an evolutionary strategy that lets plants play the long game: A few seeds from the bank are deputized to flower and drop more seeds, while the rest hold off on entering the vulnerable baby plant stage until conditions are more promising.
A bumper year like this one is both a visual feast and a down payment on future blooms. Today’s wildflowers will make further deposits into the seed bank that can survive in the soil for years until the right conditions come along — provided no one plows them under to build a big-box store or put up a parking lot.Bougainvillea clusters on a wall along Vicente Fernández Street near 1st Street in Boyle Heights.
“You can go for a walk and under your feet are millions of seeds just sitting there in the seed bank. That potential for beauty in a landscape that is otherwise essentially barren in a non-good year is so freaking cool,” said
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