Desert bloom

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Bursting with colour the Atacama desert in Chile becomes adorned by a stunning flower carpet every five to seven years.. This year's display is said to the most extraordinary of the past 18 years.

Desert Sand Verbena (Abronia villosa), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park California #56847

Flowers in the desert

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Once every few years, the Namibian desert experiences what is known as the Sandhof lily bloom. The lily bulbs sit in the clay beneath the desert floor, waiting patiently for years some centimers of rainfall.

After 5 years of exceptional drought, California deserts have exploded with “superblooms” of wildflowers following the wet winter.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is a state park of California, USA, preserving a vast tract of the Colorado Desert in Southern California. The park is named after 18th century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and from the Spanish word borrego meaning big horn sheep. With 600,000 acres (2,400km2) that include one-fifth of San Diego County, Anza-Borrego is the largest state park in California and, after New York's Adirondack Park, the second largest in the continental United States. The…