[NatureNS] re flowering of maples etc. -- was Norway Maples and

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:36:01 -0300
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I agree on the time of year remark, every year I think I like spring 
best but then every fall I think that is the best, I guess it is the 
change I like.

Annabelle in East Gore

On 16/04/10 4:52 PM, James W. Wolford wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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