In April 2019 having lived in the Los Angeles area for over a decade I finally made the drive to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve. We had a ‘superbloom’ in the spring of 2019 so there were photos all over the news & social media.

Seeing it in person was an entirely different thing. the poppy fields in bloom are a landscape like nothing else I have ever seen.

  • Poppies & Creamcups
  • Owls clover, Goldenfields
  • Closer shot of the Owls Clover bloom
  • Owls clover & Goldenfields
  • Lacy Phacelia
  • Poppies & bluedicks.
  • One cream colored poppy
  • Poppies.
  • Never did figure out what this flower was
  • POPPIES.
  • Lupine
  • OMG POPPIES. Also there is a lark of some kind on that shrub.
  • Pygmy leaved lupine
  • Nate amidst the poppies.
  • Pygmy Leaved Lupine
  • Douglas Locoweed
  • Douglas Locoweed blossom
  • Orange horizon
  • Poppies & fiddlenecks
  • Little desert wildlife
  • Poppies, Fiddleneck, Lupine
  • ants ants ants
  • Ground level view

The wild poppies really are that orange. Brilliant, glowing, orange. I grow some in my front yard, having a partially native CA garden. They are very nice but they are pale in comparison to the wild ones at the preserve.

I’ll probably edit this entry & lay these out with a gallery plugin of some kind so they’re easier to look at but this is much easier to just get them online for now.

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