Tulip
Garden Update: March 31, 2006
Today's Update Includes:
- This Week's Map and Data
- Botany Lesson: Looking for Tulip Parts – Challenge Question #7
- Focusing with O’Keeffe on the Details
- Digging into a Decade of Data!
- Challenge Question #8
- Discussing CQ#6: Puzzler: How fast did the tallest bulbs grow?
- Spotlight on YOUR Gardens
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Spring seems to have arrived a bit later for a garden in MA - a few weeks behind other years. While many gardens are already celebrating their bloom a few are waiting for the first sign of spring.
What about your garden?
- Slideshow (Week-by-week animation)
- This Week's Data (Reported March 25 - 31, 2006)
Make your own map or print ours.
Botany Lesson: Looking for Tulip Parts
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Your
tulip will have all these flower parts. Can you find and label
them? Credit: Nat. Gardening Assoc. |
As you observe closely and label your drawing think how you would answer this:
Challenge Question #7:
“ Why do plants make flowers? Why do you think the Red Emperor tulip is so colorful?”
To respond to this question, please follow these instructions.
Focusing with O’Keeffe on the Details
"Nobody sees a flower, really--it is so small--we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Each year as spring advances, we are drawn to its wonder and beauty. Use this art lesson and take a moment to focus on the beauty of springtime in the natural world.
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Art
made by students from the Johns/Pappas class in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 2005. |
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Digging into a Decade of Data!
This week we received the 10th report in 10 years from gardener Holly Cerullo, a retired teacher in Chelmsford, MA: “ 03/24/06 - This is the latest that my tulips have ever emerged. It doesn't seem to make sense to me, since our temperatures have been normal to above normal. The climatologists say that we have had above average amounts of snow. However, the snow did not stay on the ground for long. Since snow is an insulator, maybe the ground was colder, longer.”
There are 10 years of data we can study for Cerullo's garden. Here are her emergence dates:
2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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03/24
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04/01*
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03/15
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03/17
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02/25
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2001
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2000
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1999
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1998
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1997
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03/17
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02/28
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03/01
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03/04
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03/16
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Challenge Question #8:
“ Study the emergence data to calculate: What is the date for the mean (median, and range) of emergence in the Chelmsford garden?”
To respond to this question, please follow these instructions.
Discussing CQ#6: Puzzler: How fast did the tallest bulbs grow?
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Learn How they solved the challenge and more:
Spotlight on YOUR Gardens
How is tulip emergence like “ice out” for NY gardeners? Who’s eating the garden in MD? What happens when the sun finally comes out in CA? And, did you know that there is purple inside a tulip flower?
Gardeners share their interesting comments as they reported in this past week:
The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted onApril 7, 2006.
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