California hills burst with color in rare wildflower ‘superbloom’

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  • The record-breaking rain in California has created an unexpected and beautiful spring-time “superbloom” of wildflowers all across the state after years of drought. TODAY’s Jacob Soboroff has your Morning Boost.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 325

  • @jkingston5498
    @jkingston5498 Рік тому +62

    It's breathtaking! Everyone should see this at least once in their life.

  • @mind-of-neo
    @mind-of-neo Рік тому +22

    I have never even been to California but im so glad y'all got that MUCH needed rain

    • @MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou
      @MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Рік тому +7

      Thanks! It's weird hearing a non-Californian say something nice to us for a change, lol.

    • @Gingerhannah23
      @Gingerhannah23 Рік тому +5

      @@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou I agree, Matt. The comment section is normally laden with hate about any CA news, so this is a breath of fresh air.

    • @juliaweber212
      @juliaweber212 Рік тому +1

      I have but I have never seen this bloom so beautiful

    • @boardcertifiable
      @boardcertifiable Рік тому

      We are too, but we hear here that the Salt Lake/Utah needs rain too. Hope some of this water makes it there to help them out.

  • @marilynkozlow8400
    @marilynkozlow8400 Рік тому +15

    It’s absolutely beautiful. We drove from I5 to the central coast and it almost brought tears to my eyes.

  • @bumblebee5990
    @bumblebee5990 Рік тому +64

    Our golden hills have yet a different tone. It’s amazing, all these flowers are stunning , to think they have waited so long to sprout. I hope everyone gets to see the beauty of nature.

    • @SeaTurtle515
      @SeaTurtle515 Рік тому +4

      Are you Bumble Bee too?🐝

    • @bumblebee5990
      @bumblebee5990 Рік тому +4

      @@SeaTurtle515 yes! Must love the bees! . Are you able to see the s blooms in person?

    • @SeaTurtle515
      @SeaTurtle515 Рік тому +3

      @@bumblebee5990 The super blooms are about 2 hrs away. I don’t know if I will be able to this year. But all our local hills are full of wildflowers with hiking trails to them, so I’m thankful for that. Yes, I love bees and all the pollinates and all of the natural world. Are you able to visit any of the super blooms?

    • @bumblebee5990
      @bumblebee5990 Рік тому +1

      @@SeaTurtle515 Oh yes, I saw huge patches of poppies and lupine when I drove across the state just north of San Luis Obispo. It’s was the first time I had ever seen this much. It’s also starting to really fill out in the Bay Area. Even Oceanside there are a lot more flowers. I am kind of interested in what will happen in the Mendocino area as they have been replanting native species along the costal trails for years. There are varieties of poppies that just are lovely. Nothing beats standing near a tree in blossom listing to all the different bees.

  • @pmp521
    @pmp521 Рік тому +23

    I saw this back in 2019s super bloom at the Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley. It was breathtaking. People should see it at least once to experience nature's beauty

    • @firamation8114
      @firamation8114 Рік тому

      But people keep trampling them and killing them just to take a photo idk man

  • @adriaanboogaard8571
    @adriaanboogaard8571 Рік тому +23

    I'm 55 and have only seen that once when I was a little kid and never forgot it. I've lived in Utah since 1976 and I figured a bloom was coming and wished I could go . I've been enjoying still shot pictures on UA-cam. They are incredible 😁

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Рік тому

      They really are!

  • @adamkalb1
    @adamkalb1 Рік тому +7

    This is refreshing to hear news about the California landscape that is not another wildfire. I almost misread wildflower as wildfire.

  • @kathleentyson6727
    @kathleentyson6727 Рік тому +69

    I used to go and see this every year ,it’s the most beautiful thing in nature.

    • @jdos5643
      @jdos5643 Рік тому +5

      California just be having like every beautiful place

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 Рік тому +12

      @traybern Get a grip 😂 yes, the flowers bloom yearly. But not every time is a “super” bloom. Please watch your blood pressure.

    • @RideRedRacer
      @RideRedRacer Рік тому +6

      @traybern yes, its almost every year. I live here too

    • @mollysimmons2960
      @mollysimmons2960 Рік тому

      What I love is when a good winters rain brings a river of blossoms & magnificent flowers of different species…
      then after the grass grows long…the wind blows over the meadows & valleys of grass.
      The grass moves like the water on the Ocean🌊🤩✨

    • @whoru7742
      @whoru7742 Рік тому

      1:33

  • @marycompogno5665
    @marycompogno5665 Рік тому +11

    I remember traveling with my parents through the desert when I was a teenager, and it was in bloom. Beautiful colors and the Joshua trees were very pretty. Someone told us it only happens about every nine years or so.😊

    • @funnygum1
      @funnygum1 11 місяців тому

      It happens when there is heavy rain fall

  • @rachelleanonymous2740
    @rachelleanonymous2740 Рік тому +7

    I was just down the the Mojave desert for a week and it was gorgeous - mustard yellow all over the ground, along with lighter yellow flowers and bursts of purple blooms! ❤🌻We we're helping my grandma move out of her house after my grandpa passed, and she was so excited to see so many flowers on her last-ever visit.

  • @mamikafashion3345
    @mamikafashion3345 Рік тому +24

    Beautiful sight, beautiful news, just like what we need now ❤️

  • @gardenjoy5223
    @gardenjoy5223 Рік тому +74

    Extremely beautiful.
    Don't doom the bloom! Perfect time to grow up, and get rid of immature selfishness by ignoring necessary rules. Stay on the paths!

    • @Trund27
      @Trund27 Рік тому +4

      Absolutely!! Well said.

  • @___beyondhorizon4664
    @___beyondhorizon4664 Рік тому +13

    When I see the month long rain season, I knew Super Bloom is coming!

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Рік тому

      Same, California desperately needed it!

  • @bloodorangemoon
    @bloodorangemoon Рік тому +15

    I have never seen such a bloom before, this year is truly spectacular!

    • @michellewitt2071
      @michellewitt2071 Рік тому +2

      I’m in SoCal hiking as often as I can right now! 🤩

    • @amishmodi74
      @amishmodi74 Рік тому

      Location please!!!!!

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Рік тому

      It's all that rain California got not long ago. I think like a 1-3 months ago. Clearly the plants needed it desperately!

    • @bloodorangemoon
      @bloodorangemoon Рік тому

      @@amishmodi74 We were driving through Chino Hills

  • @acslater017
    @acslater017 Рік тому +4

    Everything is growing like crazy this spring, from my backyard to the landscaped street medians to the flowers growing alongside the grapes in wine country. What a welcome reprieve after several years of yellow and brown!

    • @tuyetvo4353
      @tuyetvo4353 Рік тому

      A lot of water from rain in South California

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Рік тому

      It's all that rain y'all got a month or few months back.

  • @Freedom_and_Democracy
    @Freedom_and_Democracy Рік тому +30

    We miss Huell Howser and California's Gold.

    • @briane173
      @briane173 Рік тому +2

      His shows are all archived at Chapman University's Huell Howser website. He donated his entire library to Chapman before his death. I binge-watched 100s of his episodes and it rekindled my affinity for my native state. Unfortunately the body politic in CA is suffering from a collective epidemic of cranial rectosis, otherwise I'd move back. I miss it.

    • @graham974
      @graham974 Рік тому

      “That’s amazing!”

  • @michelemaliano7860
    @michelemaliano7860 Рік тому +1

    When I lived in California I saw that all time one spring driving down the 101 freeway from Santa Barbara to San Francisco.

  • @coryart
    @coryart Рік тому +6

    As a teenager, I picked a beautiful wildflower off of my families property and I did a detailed painting of it. I never saw that flower again, (other then the painting). I had "Doomed the Bloom".

  • @saffronskies333
    @saffronskies333 Рік тому +1

    The Carrizo Plain is FANTASTIC this time of year...

  • @mikeandloria
    @mikeandloria Рік тому +1

    Thank you for some positivity! Amen 🙏

  • @marymeyer707
    @marymeyer707 Рік тому +6

    Wish I could see it in person! The colors are incredible!!

  • @mooonie6634
    @mooonie6634 Рік тому +3

    One of my favorite memories of my childhood took place around 1959 in a very small town on the CA coastline, Moss Beach which abutted Half Moon Bay. The open spaces area were filled with those poppies and it was breathtaking to see. Gold everywhere.

  • @albertomartinez3469
    @albertomartinez3469 Рік тому +6

    Thank you for your reference to Mr.Huell Howser. This is truly California's gold
    REST IN PARADISE
    Huell Howers🙏😎

  • @from-Texas
    @from-Texas Рік тому

    WOW! Amazing beautiful poppies!

  • @indigenousandexoticflora8000
    @indigenousandexoticflora8000 Рік тому +6

    Super bloom-nature's gift

  • @lisahumphries3898
    @lisahumphries3898 Рік тому +2

    I was flying from So. Cal to No. Cal a few days ago and saw it from the air. It looked like paint was spilled on the hills. It was so pretty.

    • @Joe-gw9wh
      @Joe-gw9wh Рік тому

      Omg that makes me want to fly now. Last time I flew that California was completely brown and dry.

  • @23SquidOohGrrrl
    @23SquidOohGrrrl Рік тому +7

    Thank you Lee for always keeping it real & prioritizing education. I watch your channel &!others because it sickens & angers me to hear about any cruelty or neglect to any animals. I can only imagine the courage it must take to persevere in the work you do every day. I know you show such a small percent of the negative aspects you witness. I’m so grateful you are a an uncompromising advocate for animals & im so grateful for all the positive stories you show. It doesn’t mean there isn’t horrible cruelty, apathy & people suffering who are so sick they take it out on others. I wish it were otherwise. In the meantime, thanks for all that you, your staff, & your animal rescue peers do everyday both behind & on camera.

  • @67kurtcobainfan27
    @67kurtcobainfan27 Рік тому +2

    Gorgeous rare wildflower ‘superbloom’. 💐🌸💮🏵🌻🌼🌺 🥀 🪴
    California welcome back to the garden of paradise. 🌷🌹🌷🌹 🪴

  • @bkbland1626
    @bkbland1626 Рік тому +1

    Arizona is going off too. I'm hiking on the AZT and it's amazing.

  • @lopezexplora
    @lopezexplora Рік тому

    It’s a must on your bucket list of places to visit whenever this happens, I’m so lucky it’s only 40 minutes drive from home ( Santa Clarita California)

  • @ruthnolan13
    @ruthnolan13 Рік тому +54

    THANK YOU for educating the public to not walk around amongst the wildflowers! California's deserts are being trampled to death with extreme tourism already. --from a California desert resident

    • @joits
      @joits Рік тому +5

      Unfortunately there are still way too many people that either don't know this and continue to behave this way, or even worse, there are those that know what they're doing is wrong but don't care because it means they're able to get their shot for social media.

    • @lostwanderer6649
      @lostwanderer6649 Рік тому

      It's so annoying, you'd think the state would have signs or troopers or chp citing

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 Рік тому

      I recall one town tried to block tourists by parking cars across the single road entrance to the bloom.

    • @sunnyday7843
      @sunnyday7843 Рік тому +1

      MONTANA as well- dogs and litter- it is ruined 😢

    • @stephanieyee9784
      @stephanieyee9784 Рік тому

      Hopefully most people will do the right thing and stay on the designated paths. Unfortunately there will be that small percentage of people who cannot help themselves. Some people Always think they are better than others and rules don't apply to them. If the Rangers catch them I hope they're banned for life and given Huge Fines.

  • @missboozehound
    @missboozehound Рік тому +2

    In San Diego, Florida Canyon has a beautiful bloom.

  • @katherinem.4414
    @katherinem.4414 Рік тому +2

    So beautiful!!

  • @bettyhouk8727
    @bettyhouk8727 Рік тому

    I grew up in the Bakersfield CALIFORNIA area and I remember how beautiful the hills were in spring time. In particular when we had a “rainy winter “ ! I remember an EASTER SUNRISE our church had up in the hills ! We were surrounded in wild 🌸 flowers 🌺 sooo very very beautiful ! One of my favorite memories! 👵🏻😻😸😺😽🙀🖖👽

  • @PatriciaMartinez-ty4er
    @PatriciaMartinez-ty4er Рік тому

    Wild flowers growing crazy everywhere in Southern California. There are California sunflowers along our freeways estuaries and open fields. Just beautiful.

  • @flowerredanna8890
    @flowerredanna8890 Рік тому +2

    Hermosa la creación de Jehová 😊

  • @dh00mketu
    @dh00mketu Рік тому +2

    Super bloom!! Very creative I couldn't have thought of that. Lol.

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie Рік тому

    Yes, the best time to see the full beauty!!!

  • @freelancelady
    @freelancelady Рік тому

    Same phenomenon happening in Saudi Arabia. The desert is going green and flowers are blooming. How much rain is important in our lives…😊😊😊

  • @kathleenjohnson1885
    @kathleenjohnson1885 Рік тому +12

    I lived in California for over 35 years moving out in 2019. The flowers on the hill sides are beautiful, but every year when this happens, people on the highways, just pull over on the shoulder and walk up into the hills. It creates such a back-up on the freeways that it’s impossible to even get home. Sometimes, the back up is over 10 miles long. These people that pull over are just so incredibly inconsiderate.

    • @spacebar9733
      @spacebar9733 Рік тому

      ……so….. dont stop and smell the flowers

    • @bettyhouk8727
      @bettyhouk8727 Рік тому

      Maybe so ! Sorry if you were (are) inconvenience! At least the “inconsiderate peoples “ took time out of their wish to get to their destinations also and enjoy MOTHER NATURE’S gift of BEAUTY for all to see, smell and enjoy ! Some of us just have to see the reality of MOTHER NATURE’S BEAUTY. INSTEAD OF PICTURES !🥴 🥰😍👵🏻🙀😺😸🖖👽✌️

  • @DaDansinBear
    @DaDansinBear Рік тому

    I lived out there for more than 13 years and I never seen anything like this. This is effing beautiful.

  • @kaiyaom2195
    @kaiyaom2195 Рік тому +1

    Oh wow it so beautiful nature ❤❤

  • @BeautifulGardensExplorer
    @BeautifulGardensExplorer Рік тому

    the Superbloom really is amazing... wish we have more flower fields in Northern California 😍🧡💛

  • @floridaaguada4216
    @floridaaguada4216 Рік тому

    Such a blessing beautiful flowers.❤❤❤❤

  • @ryanm9318
    @ryanm9318 Рік тому +1

    Started to sneeze and eyes watering just looking at the thumbnail.

  • @juliaweber212
    @juliaweber212 Рік тому

    So beautiful

  • @stephanieyee9784
    @stephanieyee9784 Рік тому

    That is stunning and Mother Nature is the Best.

  • @Tamar-sz8ox
    @Tamar-sz8ox Рік тому +1

    It’s a sign ! 🙏❤️💐

  • @briane173
    @briane173 Рік тому +2

    God bless ya for giving the shoutout to Huell Howser. I've wanted so badly to get back down south to my native state to take in the superbloom, I'm just hoping it's still going by the time I do get there.

  • @Devonellah
    @Devonellah Рік тому +3

    This makes my day!!!

  • @westho7314
    @westho7314 Рік тому

    i live in the Northern Mojave Desert near Death Valley, Just driving the 140 mile round trip to the grocery store for me is a visual smorgasbord of color, after nearly 20 years of drought & the last superbloom being 2005 its quite a treat for the eyes.

  • @DanielGennaro
    @DanielGennaro Рік тому +1

    Wish I was there 😢

  • @sharonloomis5264
    @sharonloomis5264 Рік тому +2

    California, listen up! Calendars, placemats, pictures for the wall, fabrics, etc. Go wild California with snapshots. Lots of people are not able to get to your state. Bring it to us please.❤

  • @kathrynsinclare8459
    @kathrynsinclare8459 Рік тому +1

    Congratulations California on your super bloom year. 👏👋🏻🧑‍🦳👋🏻❤️❤️❤️

  • @classical7
    @classical7 Рік тому

    Gorgeous!
    Don't doom the bloom!!

  • @beybslifeintheus494
    @beybslifeintheus494 Рік тому

    Beautiful flowers

  • @SeaTurtle515
    @SeaTurtle515 Рік тому

    Breathtaking!

  • @rdbeckett590
    @rdbeckett590 Рік тому

    Beautiful!

  • @joybrainanuersymsurvivor
    @joybrainanuersymsurvivor Рік тому

    im taking a botany class and this is awesome to see the bloom!

  • @macman3175
    @macman3175 Рік тому +1

    God is reminding us He is still in control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @tys1646
    @tys1646 Рік тому +1

    Wow that’s nice 😍

  • @gloriaharo6075
    @gloriaharo6075 Рік тому

    HWY 138 looks spectacular!

  • @libertyvilleguy2903
    @libertyvilleguy2903 Рік тому

    Similar bloom of poppies outside Phoenix; just magnificent. Wish everyone could see it.

  • @Ayveh
    @Ayveh Рік тому

    They are beautiful, saw another video where it said/showed it being seen from space.

  • @suziperret468
    @suziperret468 Рік тому

    Super Bloom! California’s gold!!

  • @Sailor376also
    @Sailor376also Рік тому

    I spent much of my winter in south western Arizona. With an unusual rain after rain after rain in January and February,, the desert of creosote, mesquite, and saguaro cactus,, and dead dry sand and crust,, turned green. It grew grass.

  • @RacerX1971
    @RacerX1971 Рік тому

    Beautiful

  • @psfca
    @psfca Рік тому +1

    No more drought and beautiful super bloom

  • @arthurb8924
    @arthurb8924 Рік тому +1

    This happened about 5 years ago, too.

  • @c.d.9035
    @c.d.9035 Рік тому +2

    These flowers were so common when I was a kid. We called wild mustard gold, lupines silver, and California poppies copper.

  • @Joanne9557
    @Joanne9557 Рік тому

    Spectacular!!!

  • @L.Spencer
    @L.Spencer Рік тому +1

    The hills of San Diego are yellow with mustard and small daisies and sunflowers.

  • @emotivelyy_
    @emotivelyy_ Рік тому

    Wonderful.

  • @arveedibira2454
    @arveedibira2454 Рік тому +8

    now they can sing in california... " The Hills are alive.."... not just in Vienna

  • @puppylove422
    @puppylove422 Рік тому

    I love when this bloom happens with the wild flowers! I love it when it happens :DDDD

  • @naveednaqvi1697
    @naveednaqvi1697 Рік тому +1

    Love ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @tomtaber1102
    @tomtaber1102 Рік тому +3

    The Carrizo Plain National Monument is probably the best place to see it.

  • @sleeks9939
    @sleeks9939 Рік тому +2

    TX, Florida!
    CaLOVEfornia Hold my beer, just fantastic!

  • @grizzlybear4
    @grizzlybear4 Рік тому

    I so miss it. 😢

  • @tracybranson1699
    @tracybranson1699 Рік тому +8

    Thanks for letting everyone know. It was a drag to show up with hundreds of ppl every where and then someone told us that it was on the news and that's why so many ppl. I'm glad everyone gets to enjoy and ugh. Showing my age, we remember the days when we could be with nature with out a city of people and their dogs. I remember when camping was a vacation for poor people. 🤣

  • @callen8908
    @callen8908 Рік тому

    Thanks for mentioning Hugh and California’s Gold

  • @melowely
    @melowely Рік тому +4

    I live in southern CA around a popular super bloom spot. They closed access due to the chaos a few years back. Now I’m seeing people literally pull over on the side of the freeway to get a selfie in a patch of flowers. 🤦🏻‍♀️😅 They are beautiful, but there are other places to go & just look at them, I don’t get it. This whole selfie culture is out of control.

    • @NGC6144
      @NGC6144 Рік тому

      2019 was great. I went into the canyon earlier in that week before the mega crowds showed up on the weekend. Lookout Point on the Ortega Hwy has a wonderful distant view of the super bloom on those hills.

  • @dragonfox2.058
    @dragonfox2.058 Рік тому

    fabulous

  • @clarabellcutting8745
    @clarabellcutting8745 Рік тому

    I love flowers

  • @keithwilliams5600
    @keithwilliams5600 Рік тому +1

    Mother Nature is awesome 👍! 🌺🌹💪

  • @A.Rose.G
    @A.Rose.G Рік тому +2

    This is stunning... Thank you for showing it. Glad there are eyes watching over... Most of us humans will ruin it in our enthusiasm...

  • @DETROIT1948
    @DETROIT1948 Рік тому

    California Dreaming 🎉

  • @sudirmannico5729
    @sudirmannico5729 Рік тому

    wow amazing,beautyfull👍🤝🙏

  • @njione
    @njione Рік тому

    We had it too in yucca az

  • @jojopuppyfish
    @jojopuppyfish Рік тому +5

    Lancaster is 1 hour north of Los Angeles. And thank you for mentioning Huel Howser!!! May he rest in peace. BTW its called the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

    • @8188jlpc
      @8188jlpc Рік тому +1

      Antelope is closed to keep the idiots out

    • @jojopuppyfish
      @jojopuppyfish Рік тому

      @@8188jlpc So where is the above video located?

    • @8188jlpc
      @8188jlpc Рік тому

      @@jojopuppyfish Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

    • @Niteowlette
      @Niteowlette Рік тому

      The AV poppy reserve is not closed.

  • @joycej9415
    @joycej9415 Рік тому +2

    For those of us who live in the desert a big bloom after early rains is expected. I haven't got to see it in person in California but have in New Mexico with sand verbena and Mexican gold poppies

    • @Niteowlette
      @Niteowlette Рік тому

      New Mexico does not have California poppies. You cannot imagine how breathtaking this is until you see it in person.

    • @joycej9415
      @joycej9415 Рік тому

      @Night Owlette we have Mexican gold poppies that are very similar. I know what you mean though, seeing blooms cover a field in person can take your breath away! The Organ Mountains here in Southern New Mexico have a lot of those the last few weeks.

  • @leoniebailey754
    @leoniebailey754 Рік тому

    After the gloom then comes the bloom saying all is not lost there's hope

  • @sarahs5340
    @sarahs5340 Рік тому +2

    Nicest news I’ve heard in a while. 🌸🌼🧡

  • @trdoffroadguy1684
    @trdoffroadguy1684 Рік тому

    Amazing what happens when it rains.

  • @mfelce
    @mfelce 3 місяці тому

    Every year it's a super bloom lol

  • @TropicalPassionFruit
    @TropicalPassionFruit Рік тому +1

    I have a superbloom of weeds! Had luck with Arroyo Lupines. Still waiting for poppies to bloom.

  • @rambo410
    @rambo410 Рік тому +1

    This happened a few years ago in California and you saw it from space

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 Рік тому

    California is lucky

  • @janegoodwin1823
    @janegoodwin1823 Рік тому

    When I lived in SoCal before I escaped in 2007, we used to drive out to Lancaster to see the spring flowers. What a beautiful sight it was.

  • @janetteellingham4982
    @janetteellingham4982 Рік тому +1

    Mother Natures gift to us. Don’t ruin it people