On a hill above the Pacific Ocean, acres of cheerful ranunculus flowers wave in the sea breeze each spring. Starting with red and yellow blooms, the original owner of the fields cultivated a variety of colors grown today.
For a few months, visitors can wander the hillside and enjoy the 50 acres of flowers. The day I visited, all ages were captivated by the beauty.
The reds, purples, and pinks caught my eye. These are known as the “Luther Gage Giant Tecolote Ranunculus.” So some of the flowers are larger than you expect.
This year the crop is smaller than usual, due to unseasonal winter heat. We had days in the 90s in January, withering some of the baby plants. How fragile flowers are. Still, acres of beauty decorate the fields.
And when they appear for such a short time, we want to take it all in and remember when the fields lie fallow. Even one single bloom is so intricate and full of wonder.
Isn’t that the way with so many good things in life? We want to remember to savor all the joy no matter how short its season.
How about you? What flowers are blooming this season where you live?
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So pretty! I love to see flowers in abundance.
Oh my goodness! I would so love to visit this place. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Beautful. I especially like the one with the palm trees almost silhouetted against the blue sky. Wonderful. I haven’t lived in So. California since 1960. Those fields were not there at that time . . . at least I didn’t know about them if they were. Great series of photos.
Wow! So so pretty!
Beautiful photos of a lovely flower that I can’t grow in my gardens. Thank you for sharing your jaunt to these gardens.
FlowerLady
Especially love the mauve/lavender one. Such a beautiful place to feast the eyes upon. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely images. I’m in heaven when I go here – the beautiful ranunculi in huge masses.
What an amazing place! I’d love to go there. It seems the weather has wreaked its havoc everywhere. Thanks for the tour!
Just breathtakingly stunning.
oh how lovely. We have daffodils blooming here and the dogwoods are also in blossom. Our winter was far from unseasonably warm….we broke all kinds of records for snowfall!
What a beautiful place!
Great images and no doubt fantastic to experience first hand, but my favourite capture is the one of the toddler leaning in for a closer look/smell! fab! #LTTL
The fields are stunning, rather like the tulip fields in The Netherlands. I love the different shades…
so so beautiful!!!!
soooo pretty – one of my favourite flowers 🙂
Beautiful images!
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I think these are among the most beautiful flowers. I would love to visit that flower farm.
Such a wonderful place! ♥
Love all the flowers and colours
I am telling you, this place is a dreamy place. Oh I’d love to visit and spend all day capturing flowers. Your fist shot… wowza!
Beautiful series of images, but my favourite is definitely the first! Oh, my!