WINCHESTER, Calif. — Riverside County residents and visitors seeking an up-close look at rich flower blooms as winter loosens its grip can get their first glimpse Friday around Diamond Valley Lake, where the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will open the “Wildflower Trail.”
“Thanks to the late fall and early winter storms, colorful blooms are already dotting the hillsides above the reservoir,” the MWD said in a statement Wednesday. “Visitors can typically expect to see vibrant California poppies, deep blue arroyo lupines, purple Canterbury bells, yellow rancher’s fiddleneck, delicate white popcorn flowers and pink red maids.”
The poppy blooms are enormously popular. In 2019, blossoms carpeting hillsides around Lake Elsinore triggered so much attention that Interstate 15 became a virtual parking lot over several weekends…