Thank you for a wonderful spring season! This is our final tulip update of the year UNLESS:
* Your tulips have not yet bloomed and/or
* Your garden is not included on the list below.
Please review the chart below and, if your garden is not there, report the date your tulips bloomed to: jn-report@learner.org
We won't rest until this list is complete! We'll soon post a final map showing when and where all of these tulip gardens came into bloom. Be sure to visit Journey North's WWW site and see it.
Attention All Tulip Gardeners
Watch for an annoucement soon about Journey North's 1997 Tulip
Project. Instructions for planting your "official" Journey North
garden will be provided.
Special thanks to the students and staff at Fyle Elementary for sharing the results of their tulip survey! You'll find their survey accompanying this message.
Journey North Tulips in Bloom
Spring, 1996
Date of First Bloom....Place.................(Latitude/Longitude)
03/01/96...............Palo Alto, CA.........(37.26 N, 122.08 W)
03/13/96...............Tallahassee, FL.......(30.26 N, 84.16 W)
03/13/96...............San Rafael, CA........(37.58 N, 122.31 W)
03/25/96...............Franklin, TN..........(35.55 N, 86.52 W)
04/01/96...............Selah, WA.............(46.39 N, 120.31 W)
04/01/96...............Concord, NC...........(35.5 N, 80.43 W)
04/05/96...............Lafayette, CO.........(40.0 N, 104.50 W)
04/03/96...............Grand Junction, CO....(39.03 N, 108.33 W)
04/08/96...............Santa Fe, NM..........(35.41 N, 105.56 W)
04/09/96...............Louisville, CO........(39.0 N, 104.0 W)
04/10/96...............Lenoir, NC............(35.5 N, 81.3 W)
04/11/96...............Bowie, MD.............(39.00 N, 076.46 W)
04/11/96...............York, NE..............(40.85 N, 97.53 W)
04/14/96...............Moclips, WA...........(47.1O N, 124.10 W)
04/14/96...............Oradell, NJ...........(40.57 N, 74.02 W)
04/15/96...............Arnold, MD............(39.01 N, 76.30 W)
04/15/96...............Fall City, WA.........(47.34 N, 121.53 W)
04/16/96...............Lincoln, NE...........(40.49 N, 96.43 W)
04/16/96...............Silver Spring,MD......(38.59 N, 77.01 W)
04/18/96...............River Edge, NJ........(40.56 N, 74.20 W)
04/19/96...............Mystic, CT............(41.21 N, 71.58 W)
04/19/96...............Fairfax, VA...........(38.50 N, 77.18 W)
04/20/96...............Meadville, PA.........(41.38 N, 80.09 W)
04/20/96...............Salt Lake City, UT....(40.45 N, 111.53 W)
04/20/96...............East Providence, RI...(41.50 N, 71.20 W)
04/22/96...............Pittsburg, PA.........(40.00 N, 80.00 W)
04/22/96...............Elmont, NY............(40.42 N, 73.42 W)
04/23/96...............Columbia Heights, MN..(45.02 N, 93.15 W)
04/24/96...............New Hope, MN. ........(45.02 N, 93.23 W)
04/25/96...............Hopkins, MN...........(44.55 N, 93.27 W)
04/25/96...............Oley, PA..............(40.23 N, 75.49 W)
04/26/96...............Belmont, MA...........(42.23 N, 71.10 W)
04/26/96...............Robbinsdale, MN.......(45.01 N, 93.20 W)
04/29/96...............Cumberland, MD........(39.39 N, 78.45 W)
04/30/96...............Rochester, NY.........(43.10 N, 77.36 W)
04/30/96...............St. Clair, MN.........(44.09 N, 93.59 W)
05/01/96...............St. Paul, MN..........(45.00 N, 93.00 W)
05/01/96...............Valley Stream, NY.....(40.39 N, 73.42 W)
05/02/96...............New Hope, MN..........(45.02 N, 93.23 W)
05/02/96...............Rochester, NY.........(43.01 N, 77.53 W)
05/03/96...............Rochester(Webster),NY (43.12 N, 77.25 W)
05/03/96...............Vassalboro, ME........(44.27 N, 69.40 W)
05/05/96...............Long Island, NY.......(40.39 N, 73.42 W)
05/06/96...............Collingwood,ON........(44.50 N, 80.25 W)
05/07/96...............Cedar Falls, IA.......(42.31 N, 92.26 W)
05/07/96...............Montpelier, VT........(44.16 N, 72.34 W)
05/09/96...............St. Louis Park, MN....(44.56 N, 93.26 W)
05/10/96...............Sully, IA.............(41.34 N, 92.50 W)
05/11/96...............Wayzata, MN...........(44.58 N, 93.30 W)
05/11/96...............Burlington, WI........(42.40 N, 88.16 W)
05/13/96...............Rochester, NY.........(43.09 N, 77.36 W)
05/14/96...............Cabot, VT.............(44.24 N, 72.18 W)
BLOOMS IN THE NEWS
From PENNSYLVANIA
April 22
Our tulips ranged from 0 to 30 cm. They were very pretty. We didn't get
to enjoy them for very long because, someone picked them all!! Now we are
growing Wisconsin Fast Plants, which we can protect inside.
Ms. Fineman's 4th Graders
East Hills International Studies Academy
Pittsburg, PA
fineman@pps.pgh.pa.us
From NEW YORK
April 22
Our tulips bloomed on April 22.
They were 12 inches tall
Mrs. Ferrante's class
Grade 4, Clara H. Carlson School
Elmont, New York
k12elpzr@vaxd.hofstra.edu
From MINNESOTA:
April 23
On April 23 our tulips emerged. There are 22 tulips. Kent Erickson's
tulip is the biggest of them all.
Mrs. Still's Class
Ted Kubalak and Kenny Flermoen from Vally View Elementry scool
Columbia Heights, MN
0013vvel@informns.k12.mn.us
From MAINE:
May 3
We are in Vassalboro, ME. We have 5 tulips that have blosoms.
It has been very warm during the day (in the 60's), but we have
had frost at night. We planted them in front of our school. We have
black flies already! Our tulips are red and big. Not all tulips have
Blossomed. The ones that haven't Blossomed should be coming up pretty
soon. But some of ours haven't even come up yet.
We don't worry about frost on our tulips. It has frosted many times
since they blossomed and budded and no harm is done. They do last
longer, or, if they haven't bloomed, they take longer to open when
it is cold. We never cover bulb, and I haven't felt I lost any to
freezing (or even snow, should we have it).
Mrs. Haines' 4th grade.
44.273 N, 69.40 W
Vassalboro, Maine
Susan_Haines@vcs.fc.wtvl.k12.me.us
From VERMONT:
May 7
On November 7, 1995 at 10:00 am Eastern Time, 19 students from Mr.
Crowley's classroom (Montpelier, VT) planted 196 Red Emperor tulip
bulbs in two grow boxes on the playground as part of a
telecommunications study with Journey North participants around the
world.
(Montpelier can be found on a map at Latitude: 44 16 N - Longitude: 72 34 W)
It was 34 degrees F at the time of planting and raining lightly. Two days later we had our first snow fall. The temperature dropped to 17 degrees F. Students solved a portfolio problem and created several planting plans before actually putting the bulbs into the ground. This is the first problem that students solved.
Tulip Portfolio Problem:
Tulips Need Planting For Journey North Project:
1. There are two "grow boxes" on the playground that will be used for
planting Red Emperor tulip bulbs.
2. Both boxes are the same size. One of the sides is 36 inches and one of the sides is 110 inches. All the angles are the same.
3. The Red Emperor tulip bulbs need to be planted 6" apart.
4. How many can you fit in the "grow boxes"?
5. Explain your answer in detail.
Students kept records of temperture and precipatation changes for several months. As tulips were reported blooming in other states, Mr. Crowley's students watched spring slowly moving towards Vermont. We created a large map on the wall outside our classroom to display information about the blooming tulips from other schools. We were getting very anxious because our tulips were showing no signs of activity until May 1, 1996. We watched tulips breaking through the ground and by May 7 the first tulip bloomed. Two days later it snowed again but our tulips are growing strong. 100% (WOW!) of them are up and many are now flowering (May 17). Our tallest tulip is 63cm high and 7cm wide.
Students have since dissected tulips to learn flower parts, drawn pictures of tulips at varius stages, wrote tulip stories and used tulip pollen to create art work. Now we are trying to make dye out of the petals of the flower; it doesn't look like it will happen. For Mother's Day students transplanted tulip plants from school to home to share letters and poems about our perrenial love for our mothers.
Check out the grow boxes on the playground at Union School by looking
at pictures on our home page
and enjoy the beautiful tulips images.
Roger Crowley
rcrowley@plainfield.bypass.com
From IOWA:
May 10
The Lynnvle-Sully 5th grade tulips are up and have bloomed. The
largest bloom is 4" across. The tulips are 11 1/2" tall. Sully, Iowa is
very close to Pella where they are currently celebrating Tulip Time from
Thursday through Saturday. The entire community of Pella is full of
gorgeous tulips--thousands of them.
jcrall@netins.net
From WISCONSIN:
May 11
Hi, I live in Burlington, Wi. and teach in Kenosha, Wi. Burlington's
tulips have been out for a couple of days, I noticed them on Saturday, May
11. I have not seen any tulips in bloom in Kenosha which is on Lake
Michigan.
Mary Dawson, Library-Media Specialist
Kenosha Unified School District
Kenosha, Wi.
mdawson@kusd.kusd.edu
From MINNESOTA:
May 11
The first tulip in my garden bloomed today--at long last!
Elizabeth Donnelly, Journey North
Wayzata, Minnesota (near Minneapolis) 44.58 N, 93.30 W
From NEW YORK:
May 13
Our tulips have bloomed . The tallest one is 17 1/2''. And our
largest bloom is 4 1/2" . The precipitation from November 6 to
May 13 was 16.27 inches. Let us know whether other classes measured
precipitation.
Bye for now.
All the kids in Mrs Nabut's class
Rush-Henrietta Central School District
Rochester, New York
Mnabut@mail.rh.monroe.edu
From VERMONT:
May 14, 1996
We have 13 tulips that have bloomed. In October we planted 13 tulips. We
can't believe they lasted. Last night it was only 25 degrees here. We are
excited! They are beautiful! We can see the pistils and stamens in all 13.
Our location is 44 degrees 24" 5' north latitude and 72 degrees 18" 46' west
longitude. We are first and second graders in Cabot, Vermont.
Sarah, April, Jackie, Scott, Jacob, Alex, Marc, Hannah, Mandy, Orion, Jesse,
Kyle and Mrs. Hull
Cabot12@aol.com
This is the FINAL Tulip Update!
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