Tulip Test Gardens
Update: February 14, 2008 

Today's Report Includes:

  • Data, Maps, and Highlights:
    • Tulips and Temperatures >>
  • Gardeners' Comments >>
  • Explore:
    • Looking Closely >>
    • Try This! Plant Pigments >>
  • Think: Plant Survival >>
  • Links: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources >>

Please report:
1. Tulips PLANTED
2. Tulips EMERGED
3. Tulips BLOOMING

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Data, Maps, and Highlights: Tulips and Temperatures

This Week's Map >>
Data (for your map) >>

View Season's Data in NEW Drop-down Menu! >>

 Handout: Making Sense of Tulip Garden Maps >>

Highlights:
We now have 47 gardens emerging from the ground. Take a close look at the map and you'll also see 2 blooming gardens! This week we hear tulips are up in Maryland, but they report, "The weather is so erratic. One week it is 65 degrees and the next week it's 32 degrees. The poor tulips don't know what to do."
What affect does temperature have on the tulip garden?
Gardeners' Comments

Gardeners comment on unusual events:

  • "Wow! We were so surprised!! We never expected our bulbs to be poking through the ground already! We've broken records for both the highest and the lowest temperatures in our area in the last couple of weeks."  -University City, MO 02/10/08
  • "The first week of February, we saw about 7 tulips emerging. We are nervous because we are having icy, cold weather and we hope our tulips do not freeze."  - St Louis, MO 02/08/08
  • "Our first tulips emerged. The temperatures around our town have been significantly higher than in the past."  - Montclair, NJ 02/08/08
Explore: Plant Pigments   Try an Experiment >>

Sharpen your observation skills! Use them to learn more about your garden as it emerges and grows this spring. Begin looking carefully and closely at an emerging garden. How many things do you notice? Write them down!

  • What's happening Here? >>

Try This!
 Step into the lab for an experiment with plant pigments. Grab your Tulip Garden Journal and explore. Find out what happens to the same pigment placed in different environments.

  • Experiment with Plant Pigments >>
  

Look closely.What do you see? >>
Think: Plant Survival Print and Read >>

How tough are tulips? Emerging tulips often are caught in the cold and snow. How do they survive?

Over thousands of years, tulips have developed parts and life cycles that make them more likely to survive in their changing environments. Learn where the tulip plant comes from. Review geography and latitude as you read this story.

Resources: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources
  • Lesson: Temperature Maps Tell Stories: Normal or Unusual Temperatures? >>
  • Lesson (ongoing): Tulips and Temperatures: Is This a Normal Spring? >>
  • Helpful Weather Links: Climate Weather and Seasons >>
  • Tulip Garden Journals (click-and-print) >>
More Journey North Lessons and Teaching Ideas!

The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on February 21, 2008

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