Whats the best time to see wildflowers in the Sedona area?
I’ve been conferring with local experts to find out more about the bloom time in Sedona. Since Sedona is located at an elevation of about 4,000′, the bloom time is different from what it is at our facility (The Arboretum at Flagstaff), which is located at 7,000′. Jean Searle, a Sedona resident and longtime member of the Arizona Native Plant Society, gave me the following information: “Sedona is primarily pinyon-juniper woodland with some areas of grassland, which were the easiest places to build houses and so were the first to disappear. As for saying where and when the flowers will be best, that’s impossible. Our climate is quite variable from one year to the next. This year, of course, we had lots of rain and the weather so far has remained cool. Last season we had almost no rain at all. and there were no flowers, and many trees died. This is one reason our botany group does not know where the trips will be until the day before the trip. (Trips are every Wednesday.) “After all that,
