FW: [NatureNS] Elm Trees in Bloom

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:34:55 -0300
From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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Pat, we have so few surviving elms left in Wolfville that I have a hard time
finding one to check in the campus area any more.  I did note one smallish
tree that had flower buds just opening two days ago, but it was probably not
an American elm, more likely English or Scotch -- near the Acadia Arena.

Cheers from Jim
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From: "P.L. Chalmers" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:11:51 -0300
To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: [NatureNS] Elm Trees in Bloom

Hi there,

 This morning  (Friday) while walking to work I was surprised to
notice an American Elm in bloom on Oxford Street.   While I was
craning my neck to look at the blossoms up high over my head, a
friend drove by and honked, smiling as he waved.  He has me pegged as
a "birder" so probably will ask what sort of bird I was looking at,
but actually I was admiring the sight of the stamens profiled against
the sky...  Anyway, I was surprised to see them, as somehow I always
think that our Red Maples are the first trees to come into bloom.

  I don't have my field notes at hand, but I just did a check of old
emails (isn't technology wonderful), and find that Jim Wolford, who
is much better than I am at sharing these observations, has noted the
following dates for Elms blooming in Wolfville :  15 April 2000, 24
April 2004, (but 22 April in Halifax that year), and 12 April
2006.  So in fact 20 April is about average, but later than last
year.  When I walked home at the end of a warm day I looked carefully
and only saw a couple of other Elms coming into bloom, so it is just
starting here in Halifax.  Jim, are the Elms in bloom in Wolfville yet?

 Cheers,

 Patricia L. Chalmers
 Halifax

 

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