How has your garden measured up this year? What lessons have
you learned?
| It is the time of year when the map is filling in with red blooming gardens. The "What if.." questions are finding answers as the emerging and blooming tulips in experimental beds reveal themselves. Take a minute or 2 and explore the sighting reports >>. Gardeners across the Northern Hemisphere have lots to share about their own gardens and what they've learned. We still wait for tulips to emerge and bloom in some of the Journey North gardens in northern climates. Which gardeners will be celebrating next? Make your predictions now. |
|
 |
|
||
| map/sightings (Eurasia) |
map/sightings (Asia) |
|||
|
||||
Highlights:
From Gardens on 45 Degrees Latitude:
So far 3 have bloomed, and we are still waiting for the last 2 to show flowers. A report came in this week (see below). Which 2 are left? Click the map and check for yourself >> "So sorry that for some reason our initial sighting report was in fact not reported. We did have the southern exposed tulips emerge 3/24, and recall typing up our report that we still had snow on the ground, but were encouraged to nevertheless see the leaves poking up. We have had some very cold days since then and more snow, so no blossoms yet, but we'll try to make sure next time that our news really travels." Elk Rapids, MI 03/24/09 (Revisit map >>) What If....We colored our tulip bulbs before we planted them? "Our first tulips have bloomed! All of them are red, so we now know that coloring the bulbs does not change the petal color. Some look deformed. We wonder if those were the ones we cut in half. We studied Brassica plants in class, with yellow pollen, so we were very surprised to see that our tulips have purple pollen!" South Lyon, MI 04/20/09 "This is the latest our tulips have bloomed in six years of participating in JN." Midland, MI 04/25/09 "We are happy to report that our tulips have bloomed. We have been learning about phototropism and it has been exciting to see our tulips open wide to welcome the sun each day and to close up tight at night." Rochester, NY 04/25/09 |
 Clark Rutherford Memorial School tulips blooming! |
 Roosevelt Public School: Measuring the growing tulips |
Believe it or not, tulips can move! Not actually by skipping across the schoolyard, but in a more subtle way. Maybe you have already discovered this. Their movements are related to the sun, or lack of it. The scientific name for this movement is phototropism. Take a minute to study these tulip flowers. Watch how they move. Then when your OWN tulip flowers arrive, try watching them! |
|
 |
Amazing what you can see when you look hard. What can YOU see? Start out with 2 simple pictures. Look hard. How Much Can You See? >>
(Try this lesson for students: Grade 3 and above >>) |
Tulips On the Move: Time-lapse Photography
|
 |
Will you take a few minutes to complete our Year-end Evaluation?
With your help, we can we document Journey North's reach, impact and value. We need comments like yours to keep the program going and growing.
Thank you! >>
The
Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on May 7, 2009. © 1997 – 2019 Journey North. All rights reserved.
