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We're still waiting for some Test Gardens in the upper Midwest to show green, or red. The temperature map and the Test Garden map look similar and could hold some lessons. Play Answers and Questions game this week. Learn about phototropism and record it in your garden. Spotlight on a German garden. The Tulip Expert reveals interesting answers.
Today's Report Includes:
- Maps, Questions, and Highlights
- Explore: Are They Really Moving?
- Spotlight: Kaiserslautern, Germany Garden
- FAQ: Answers from the Tulip Garden Expert
- Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts!
- Resources
Image of the Week
Are They "Cousins"?
Highlights: Our Experiments
What did you learn from your experimental gardens?
"We put a brick on one of the bulbs in the fall and it grew around the brick and came up. It is not as far along as the tulips planted without the brick. One bulb planted with a piece of paper on top of it came right through the paper, we think this is because the paper got soggy. Two tulips were planted in the same hole and they both came up but with 4 stalks and the tulips were together." Report from students in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
"After much snow, spring is finally here to stay in Michigan. Our tulips finally bloomed after the sun made an appearance after a week of gray skies." —China, Michigan (04/24/11) "This is our latest bloom date in our 8 years of participation." —Midland, MI (04/26/11) |
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This Week's Map Questions Handout |
Believe it or not, tulips move! Not actually by skipping across the yard, of course. They move in a more subtle way. Some of you have already discovered this.
As with all the cycles of life and migration, the sun is at the center of this amazing phenomenon. Plants move because of the sun. Phototropism is the scientific word that describes a plant's movement toward or away from a source of light.
Get ready, watch the tulip flowers. They're going to move!
Keep a record of your tulips and find out more about how and when they move. Use this recording chart.
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Amazing what you can see when you look closely. What can YOU see? What do you think causes the flowers to open and close? Why do you think they do this? Another Look: |
"We have been planting tulips at Vogelweh Elementary School since 2004." wrote Dr. Henson-Boyers. "Every year, we plant one section of a test garden of 50 Red Emperor tulips, then every child in the school gets to plant their own bulb. This year we planted more than 800 bulbs!"
Vogelweh Elementary students in the spotlight.
It took an expert to answer some of the tough questions you sent, and this week we share the interesting answers.
See: Answers from the Tulip Garden Expert
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Dr. Bud Markhart Special thanks to Dr. Markhart for sharing his time and expertise again this year to answer readers' questions. |
Will you take a few minutes to complete our Annual Evaluation? With your help, we can document Journey North's reach, impact and value. We need comments like yours to keep the program going and growing.
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Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
- Journal: Garden Observations
- Explore: Flowers on the Move
- Art: O'Keeffee and the Unexpected Beauty of Spring
- Study: Isotherms: Bands of Temperature Color
- Helpful
Weather Links: Climate
Weather and Seasons
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