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</b> 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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