WILDFLOWER BEDS at Paradise -- Mount Rainier National Park -- Looking Back 2021

Описание: When we left the house it was a clear morning in the 70s and promising to be another hot day in the 90s. Three and a half hours later we were on this roadside in Mt Rainier National Park at Paradise with the temperature reading 42 F degrees in the fog, wishing I had brought a jacket.

I used the following resources for researching this video:
https://www.flowersofrainier.com/
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin...
https://visitrainier.com/

Mount Rainer's renowned wildflowers bloom for a limited amount of time every year. The "peak" bloom for wildflowers is heavily dependent on weather and precipitation. In most years, many flowers will be blooming by mid-July, and by the first of August the meadows should be very impressive, bursting with color. Avalanche lilies, paintbrush, asters, daisies, cinquefoil, fireweed, purple shooting stars and so many others, blanket the mountain in every color of the rainbow

Most of the flowers we saw were in the subalpine zone. J.B. FLETT wrote: Moist meadows are the real natural flower gardens of the mountain, surpassing perhaps in beauty of color, number of species, and luxuriance of growth any other alpine region of the world.

Again from J. B. FLETT, On passing through a dense cluster of alpine trees and emerging for the first time into one of these "gardens" one of the most noted of the botanical visitors to the park last summer stopped and repeated the word "wonderful! wonderful! wonderful!" This was the verdict of a man whose long and successful life has been devoted to botanical research not only in his own fatherland but in nearly every country of the world.

In conclusion, the words of J.B. FLETT
A satisfactory description of a natural flower bed has not come to the writer's observation nor does he expect to write one now. If by means of this article more people shall be brought in touch with the mountain and its wonderful flora he will be satisfied. These flower beds must be seen and their fragrance inhaled before a full comprehension of them can be realized. The more one sees them, the more does he realize their infinite beauty and the full significance of the spiritual lessons which these floral emblems teach.

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