Wildflower Festival blooms in Palm Desert

Hundreds explored the Friends of the Desert Mountains’ Coachella Valley Wildflower Festival at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center in Palm Desert.

People took busses up the the center. There they learned about the wildlife and plantlife at the mountain preserve.

The day included guided walks, vendors, exhibitors, along with animal and plant presentations.

Rademaker and Croft – stars of Travel Channel’s Sand Masters show – and volunteers sculpted 24 tons (48,000 pounds) of sand supplied by Granite Construction of Indio into a desert-native jackrabbit, or what the kids were calling, an Easter Bunny.

“What makes it unique,” says Tammy Martin, Director of Operations with Friends of the Desert Mountains, “is the beauty of the mountains around us, along with all the wildflowers we’ve been receiving with the rain we got.”

People most often see a brittle bush or a creosote, the smoke tree is pretty popular when that’s in bloom, and desert lavender, says Martin.

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