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Index of Subjects Hi Pat, Out here in east hants the red maples are also far along. I must notice the grass today. It is all a little worrying! On 24/03/10 10:45 PM, P.L. Chalmers wrote: > 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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