Natural History Wanderings

KCET  has a news article on this year’s wildflower bloom in Joshua Tree at  Superbloom, Schmooperbloom: Joshua Tree’s Regularbloom Has Everything You Need | KCET

They reported

Joshua Tree, instead, got a moderately wet few months of winter, and the bloom in the park — while better than we’ve seen the last couple of years — is well within the fat and squishy part of the bell curve as the last couple decades go. Call it a Regularbloom: it’s how the desert is supposed to look.

That doesn’t mean the bloom isn’t impressive. For instance, it’s one of the best years I can remember for bloom of Joshua Tree’s other yucca, the Mojave yucca a.k.a Yucca schidigera.