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This afternoon while driving along Jubilee Road in south end
Halifax, I noticed that the American Elms were coming in to
bloom. This is about three weeks early, compared to my observations
from previous years (see below). Red maples are not yet in bloom,
but have huge buds, just waiting for the sun to return. Has any one
else noticed how green the grass has become, with the recent rain?
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:11:51 -0300
>To: Nature
>From: "P.L. Chalmers" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Elm Trees in Bloom
>
> 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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