Tulip
Garden Update: April 14, 2006
This Week's Map and Data This week BLOOMING tulips beat out EMERGING ones. We know that spring has almost arrived in North America when this happens! Compare this week’s garden with last in the week-by-week animation, and keep your eye on the northern-most gardens. When will the rest of our gardens emerge?
Hardiness Zones and Tulips
What’s your zone? Study the Plant Hardiness Zone map and compare it to this week’s tulip map. Use it for predicting when the remaining Alaska gardens will emerge?
Find the Anomaly: Challenge Question #11
One of their tulip bulbs in the Northside Elementary garden grew 2 flower stalks. It was beautiful. But they were very curious – was this really 2 bulbs close together? or just a special bulb? Following the scientific method, they dug it up. Here’s what they found. Have you seen any garden anomalies? Share what you have found this spring.
To respond to this question, please follow these instructions. Don't Come Closer! How Plants Protect their Space Have you ever felt like you needed your own space? Usually you can walk away or shut your door, but what can plants do? Plants and trees need to have their own space so they have enough nutrients and water. They can't walk or run anywhere. Plants have a different way of getting their own space. They use alleopathy. Find out more about this amazing phenomenon then use radish seeds to try your own alleopathy experiment.
I See Patterns, Do You? Discussing Challenge Question #9 What did you think the tulip map would look like in April? Did you predict that spring would move from south to north? Last time we asked: “Why are gardens along the oceans blooming further north now than gardens in the middle of the continent? Explain your answer.” Great discussion followed this question. Vertically Challenged Tulips: Discussing Challenge Question #10 What’s going on with the tulips in Seattle? We asked: “Lafayette Elementary school’s tulips were stunted in height this year. What factors might have caused their tulip plants and tulips in the whole Seattle area to be shorter this spring?” What do you think? Read on to hear what 5th graders in Council, ID think. Then, read an explanation from our Tulip Expert, Eve Blanchard. She walks you through how a scientist would solve this question. The Tough Tulip Beats All Odds The tulip garden at Northside Elementary in Fairfield IL has bloomed against all odds. The last day of March they reported in with a story and pictures of the struggles to grow their Journey North garden. Here’s what happened:
Make Your Own: Tulip Models Create a model of the entire tulip plant.
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