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--Boundary_(ID_ia1DbAPjOclGhNbZpjRMrg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I just did a five-minute walk to campus from downtown Wolfville to check some Norway maples I always watch in early Spring: APR. 16, 2010 - The Norway maples on campus where I always see early Spring flowers (if memory serves, usually/always before sugar maples) show only quite swollen green buds with only a hint in some of imminent opening. This is despite a report of flowers of Norway maple as early as April 12 from Patricia Chalmers in Halifax, and Anne & Eric Mills' reports of flowers at Lower Rose Bay several days ago. In Wolfville some sugar maples were showing open flowers yesterday, Apr. 15. Of course, long ago in much earlier Spring, the planted silver maples and partly native red maples bloomed, and the red maples are lovely still throughout Wolfville. And various varieties of elms are also in bloom now, plus white-flowered magnolias, willows, and black/ balsam/Carolina/Lombardy poplars in addition to aspen poplars, plus willows, etc. Ain't this a grand time of year, despite its always off-an-on and unpredictable nature? (except perhaps in the long term?). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville -------------------- Begin forwarded message: > From: "Eric L. Mills" <e.mills@dal.ca> > Date: April 16, 2010 9:44:16 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Norway Maples and a Marine Query > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > As it happens, the first indication I have had of the spring bloom > was yesterday morning in > light fog and with SE winds in Halifax. Although I have been in > full sniffer mode for the past > three weeks, this is my first "sighting" of the bloom, although > Anne tells me that she > detected it here near Lower Rose Bay last week. Blooms are patchy, > of course. And we are > detecting the senescence of the bloom, not its beginning. > > On 15 Apr 2010 at 23:28, P.L. Chalmers wrote: > >> So many plants are flowering earlier than usual this year! On >> Monday (12 April) I noticed that the flower buds of the Norway Maples >> were beginning to open. The cool weather in the last few days has >> slowed them down, but any day now the trees along the streets in >> south end Halifax will sport their fluffy clusters of lime-green >> flowers, and people will comment on the "leaves" coming out. In >> Halifax Norway Maples usually bloom during the first week in May. >> >> We have been sharing observations of various plants and terrestrial >> animals that seem to be early this year. Can anyone tell us if the >> ocean is warmer than normal for this time of year? Are marine life >> cycles similarly advanced in the season? I ask, because I have >> noticed in other years that Eric Mills' observation of a "spring >> bloom of phytoplankton" often coincides with the Norway Maple bloom. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patricia L. Chalmers >> Halifax >> >> > > --Boundary_(ID_ia1DbAPjOclGhNbZpjRMrg) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> I just did a five-minute walk to campus from downtown Wolfville to check = some Norway maples I always watch in early = Spring:<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>APR. 16, 2010</b> - = The<b> Norway maples</b> on campus where I always see early Spring = flowers (if memory serves, usually/always before <b>sugar maples</b>) = show only quite swollen green buds with only a hint in some of imminent = opening. This is despite a report of flowers of <b>Norway = maple</b> as early as April 12 from Patricia Chalmers in Halifax, and = Anne & Eric Mills' reports of flowers at Lower Rose Bay several days = ago.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">In Wolfville some <b>sugar maples </b>were showing = open flowers yesterday, Apr. 15. </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Of = course, long ago in much earlier Spring, the planted silver maples and = partly native red maples bloomed, and the red maples are lovely still = throughout Wolfville. And various varieties of elms are also in = bloom now, plus white-flowered magnolias, willows, and = black/balsam/Carolina/Lombardy poplars in addition to aspen poplars, = plus willows, etc. Ain't this a grand time of year, despite its = always off-an-on and unpredictable nature? (except perhaps in the long = term?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px = Helvetica">-------------------- </font></div><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"Eric L. Mills" <<a = href=3D"mailto:e.mills@dal.ca">e.mills@dal.ca</a>></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b>