The 2002 Floral Flag is 740 feet wide and 390 feet high and maintains the proper Flag dimensions as described in Executive Order #10834. This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet indiameter; Each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers. You can drive by this flag on V Street south of Ocean Ave. in Lompoc, CA. Aerial photo courtesy of Bill Morson
Orbiting 423 miles above the Earth, the Ikonos high-resolution imaging satellite, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base a few years ago, snapped this image Sunday of the Lompoc Valley's 6.5-acre floral flag.
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That is an awesome sight! Very cool! Posted by mhayman (Member # 146) on :
Yes it is most cool indeed. It is right up the road from me (about an hour north). My sister lives right around the corner from it. The intentions were to plant the flowers so they would look nice for the 4th of July but Mother Nature didn't cooperate and the flowers weren't quite at full bloom a month ago. The pic at the bottom was what it looked like on the 4th. The top pic is what it looks like now!
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