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elleng

(136,055 posts)
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 02:19 PM Feb 2016

Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom.'

'Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after record-breaking rains last October.

It’s the best bloom there since 2005, according to Abby Wines, a spokeswoman for Death Valley National Park, and “it just keeps getting better and better.”

The flowers started poking up in November, but the particularly colorful display emerged late last month in the park, which is mainly in California but stretches across the Nevada border. On Twitter and Instagram, park visitors have taken to calling it a “superbloom.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/death-valley-is-experiencing-a-colorful-superbloom.html?

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Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom.' (Original Post) elleng Feb 2016 OP
that sure looks good about now! ginnyinWI Feb 2016 #1
We have been having the same Super Gloom her in MA. beac Feb 2016 #3
How beautiful! nt femmocrat Feb 2016 #2

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
1. that sure looks good about now!
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 09:09 AM
Feb 2016

Mid February, cloudy and grey and not a bit of color out there, here in Wisconsin.

beac

(9,992 posts)
3. We have been having the same Super Gloom her in MA.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 02:55 PM
Feb 2016

Though it was fifty when I got up this morning. Now it's colder, but the sun is partially out. But we won't see any flowers outside of a greenhouse for another couple of months.

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