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Update: April 14, 2011 |
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The map is getting more red each week, but tulips are just emerging in some gardens in Vermont, Montana, New Hampshire, and Alaska. In your blooming gardens lies an opportunity for a botany lesson. A slideshow will help you study the tulip flower and its separate parts. Discover some other related flowers. Check out a flower "sport." Maybe you have one in your garden, too. Today's Report Includes:
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Test Gardens are popping up as temperatures across the continent warm up this spring. Check out the map to "see" this happening! Warmer than normal temperatures through the mid-section of the continent really sped up the emergence and blooming last week. (See the temperature map below.) Melting snow revealed tulips peeking out of the soil in Vermont, Wisconsin, Maine, Ontario, Minnesota, Alaska, and Montana. "Yeah! Spring is here in our little corner of the world!" reported students from Whitefish, Montana. Tulip flowers from your Test Garden offer a great opportunity for a botany lesson. Kansas students reported their garden blooming and took a good look at the flowers, "...all the blossoms were wide open so we could see the pistils and stamens inside. They were purple and yellow."
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Spotlight on an Unusual Flower | |||||||||
Left 2 from Mixed Emperor batch of bulbs (these include Red, Orange, Yellow, and White Emperors) Right flower is normal Red Emperor flower. | |||||||||
Slideshow: Tulip Botany | |||||||||
The tulip bulb you planted in the fall looks a lot different in the spring. A big red flower grew from the bulb! A plant's flower holds the key to helping scientists classify all plants into families. Explore this idea when your Test Garden blooms. Use the flowers to learn more about the science of botany.
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Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on April 21, 2011. |