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Update: March 22, 2012

Please Report
Your Sightings!

How does your garden grow? Get outside to observe and record this week. Conservationist Rachel Carson once said, "It is not half as important to know as to FEEL when experiencing the natural world." Get your questions ready for our Expert, Mary Meyer. Ask the Expert opens this Friday!

This Week's Update Includes:

Explore: Creative Expression - Outside in Nature
News: Garden Highlights
Gallery: Recording a Season in the Test Garden
Test Gardens: Maps and Journal Page
Observe and Wonder: Then Ask the Expert!

Image of the Week

Credit: Melissa Ansiel

Capturing Spring

Explore: Creative Expression — Outside in Nature

Conservationist Rachel Carson once said, "It is not half as important to know as to FEEL when experiencing the natural world." In celebration of spring and warm temperatures, spend some time outside exploring with your senses.

Go on out and capture your tulip garden and other signs of the season with drawings, paintings, and poetry.

Claude Monet: Poppies Blooming

News: Garden Highlights

It is officially spring! Gardens are emerging and blooming this year with great welcome. Still waiting for your tulips to emerge? Check the map and enjoy the reports of other gardens across the Northern Hemisphere.

Garden Highlights

Blooming in Michigan

Gallery: Recording a Season in the Test Garden

How does your test garden grow? Each week of the spring brings new discoveries outside in the garden. Visit a garden in Pella, Iowa, as they capture a season in their Test Garden.

Ansiel Academy Homeschool Garden

Test Gardens: Maps and Journal Page

Wondering why some squares never change from brown? Could be "Hungry Squirrels!"

On March 17, students in Johnstown, Pennsylvania disappointedly wrote, "We are on the hunt for a very overweight squirrel. This rodent has eaten every single one of our 50 bulbs. We did follow the protocol of straw and then chicken wire to cover our bulbs. We checked a few weeks ago because we have had unusual warm weather. All we discovered was a bunch of holes where our tulips should have been and runways between holes."

Please report any events in your test garden

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Observe and Wonder: Then Ask the Expert

Observe and Wonder
These pictures of tulips show lots of different things. We hope they'll spark your curiosity. Take a look and have a brainstorm! Challenge yourself to ask at least two questions about each picture. Capture your questions and starting Friday, March 26 submit your favorites to our Tulip Garden Expert Mary Meyer.

Photo Gallery: Pictures of Tulips to Spark Curiosity

Ask the Expert
Special thanks to Mary Meyer for sharing her time and expertise to answer your questions! Beginning Friday, March 25, you will have two weeks to prepare and submit your questions to Mary Meyer.

Submit your questions starting Friday, March 23!

Ask the Expert Will be Open
March 23 - April 6, 2012.

Come Back for the next Test Garden update March 29, 2012.