Fallbrook is blooming with spring color!

Fallbrook is blooming with splashes of orange, blue and yellow from various wildflowers that grace our mountains, hills and meadows.

Last week I drove 230 miles roundtrip to highlight the wildflowers growing in the Anza-Borrego Desert, but this week I traversed the roads in and around Fallbrook and was happy to find some vibrant displays right in our “own backyard.”

Along SR-76 in Bonsall the roadside meadows are lined with lavender wild radish, which lends a flash of color to the green fields.

Driving toward Fallbrook on Old Highway 395 patches of blue lupine and bluebells pop up at the intersection of Reche Road.

On 395 between the road and I-15 there are stretches of yellow flowers from the reseeding which was completed after fire ravaged the area.

Also on 395 heading toward town, the hillsides are blue with a flower that looked like bluebells from afar, but I couldn’t tell for sure as there was no place to pull off the road.

As 395 became Mission Road fields of bluebells came into view. Turning right onto Willow Glen Road there were several patches of bluebells on the way toward Santa Margarita Park.

At the end of the road is the park’s trailhead. A short walk down the trail orange California poppies and blue lupine were growing in the soil which was blackened by fire just five months ago.

Looking out from the trail the lower slopes of Gavilan Mountain bloomed a brilliant orange and purple.

Out De Luz Road several fields of California poppies lined the winding thoroughfare.

Following Sandia Creek Drive to the Sandia Creek Park trailhead, bluebells, tiny white popcorn flowers and an occasional blue thistle sage brightened the meadows.

After our 80-degree Easter Sunday and the warmer days to come, the local wildflower display will begin to wane, but a drive down any of Fallbrook’s roads, under canopies of oaks and through groves of stately sycamores, will always be a picturesque trip, with or without splashes of color from the sprightly wildflowers.