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Real Real Late Blooming Flowers October 6, 2010 16:00 This has been a hot dry summer and one with many early blooms but we are seeing some strange re-blooms. Below is Wilson Spider today, no frost yet, and also the re-bloomer H flava. We have Elfin also still blooming. Elfin is the first and the last. We also have a fully budded Nittany Mountain Summer ready soon as well, an old Apps plant.
Late Blooming Species August 18, 2010 10:00 Here are a few late and re-bloomers.
Some Thoughts on Why So Early August 2, 2010 10:00 This has been a hot and early season, the earliest on record. S I thought I would present some data comparing 2009 to 2010. Here we go: First, April started warm, a good 15 F warmer and then ended cooler than 2009. Thus the plants got an early boost with no freezing.
Second May was near normal with a warming comparable to 2009. No real difference there.
Then in June we really hit the heat! A 10 F difference almost across the month. June usually is milder but this year it baked.
Then July we had another 8-10 F difference with a 100 + F days and many over 90 F. July 2009 had no 90 + days.
We await what August has to bring but we are now all budded out. See you all next year. Sandra Elizabeth and It's Over! July 31, 2010 10:00 When we get Sandra Elizabeth it's over. It bloomed today. This is the earliest ever. It has been a brutal July, almost 10 days over 100, almost 30 over 90. No rain to speak of ad the ground outside the garden is parched.
Getting Near The End July 18, 2010 10:00 We seem to be getting near the end. Sandra Elizabeth is poking up her scapes about a month early this year. It has been the hottest period on record and we have also seen very dry but humid weather as well, Here are the latest few.
Still in Bloom, Late Ones Arriving July 15, 2010 14:00 The garden is still in bloom and we are still hybridizing, probably get a bit over 500 crosses again. Intense heat gone and we have had a reasonable amount of rain, upper 80s and humid, it is July!
Garden at Days End July 10, 2010 20:00 We had the first day of open house and just a peak at the end of the day.
The sun is setting and the light is just wonderful as the scent from the citrinas just fills the air!
Rains Finally Came, Humid mid 80s! July 9, 2010 14:00 We finally got some rain and a break, now it is just July.
It is Now Just 100F For the 4th Day! July 7, 2010 14:00 We had a few this morning come out. There are still some with buds but no flowers and we will be checking New Hampshire shortly.
It Has Been 100F + For 3 Days! July 6, 2010 14:00 It has been hot and dry, from cool and wonderful to the Gobi Desert!
Wonderful Weather July 2, 2010 14:00 It has been just wonderful weather but very dry! It appears as if we will have little if any rain. So this year has been dry, hot, humid in parts.
The garden is doing well and I thought I would give some views.
Cool Sunny Dry June 30, 2010 19:00 It cleared of quite a bit, that is the advantage of New York City area, if you do not the weather today just wait a day..
Hot, Humid, Overcast - Yuck! June 28, 2010 19:00 It cooled down a bit, rain and high humidity.
Here are a few slides the grandchildren did on cell structure.
Hot, Humid, Overcast - Yuck! June 28, 2010 05:00 It is early and these are from yesterday. What a morning, I remember Bangkok better. The only place worse was Memphis.
GSDG Plant Sale June 26, 2010 18:00 The GSDG Plant Sale occurred today and we have the following.
Moved All of the Daylilies Inside Fence June 25, 2010 12:00 The task of moving everything inside was done today in 90+ heat. I am covered head to foot, SPF 1000 plus hats and nitrile gloves! May look like some decontaminating person to neighbors. Moved the last one behind the fence. Used to have beautiful daylily walk, but now the deer eat everything. The finished my rudbeckia and are now eating my ginkos! They leave piles of their droppings, no spray works. It is as if they want total revenge!
Moved Most of Daylilies Inside Fence June 24, 2010 12:00 The heat is overwhelming, mid 90s and 80% humidity but we have moved 100+ plants from the front to pots in the back...only way to get something the deer wont attack. They are worse this year than ever before,.. no spray works at all...
We Are Up at 5 AM! June 23, 2010 12:00 The sun is up early and so are we, getting out to look at plants. So far so god as deer go, we are moving all plants from the outside of the fence, no spray works at all this year. The deer must be truly annoyed at what we have behind the fence. He are the last two days.
Welcome Summer June 21, 2010 12:00 Summer has arrived and we are continuing.
The Heat is Building, and it's Father's Day June 20, 2010 12:00 The heat and humidity is truly getting there! We also have flowers 2-3 weeks earlier than last year! Yesterday we had the first citrina which is unheard of!
Slow But Sure June 19, 2010 12:00 They just keep coming.
The Temperature is Increasing June 18, 2010 16:00 The temp is getting up there, 90F, and the photos were late in day since I had been traveling. Some of these have wilted and do not stand the sun even up here.
They Are Coming Out in Force June 17, 2010 12:00 The hybrids are coming out in force. They are all 2-3 weeks earlier than last year so we wonder if we should move the daylily weekend. Will see. We have lots of reds which is unusual for this time of year.
Summer is On Its Way June 16, 2010 12:00 We did our first crosses today with Windham plants. Here are a few more.
They Are Starting Now June 15, 2010 12:00 We now are seeing a good bloom each day. Tons of buds and slow but steady bloom. Compare these to the last few years. Velvet Shadows was never there before, they were outside the fence and the deer went after them first. This year they are better than the Stella.
A Little More Rain But More Blossoms June 10, 2010 12:00 We keep getting some of the early ones.
A Little Rain But More Blossoms June 9, 2010 12:00 We have had a bit of rain which is welcomed. The fulvas are now out in force and the chipmunks and squirrels are all over the place. Today we got another two early blooms.
Blossoms are Now Starting in Full June 8, 2010 12:00 We now see the beginning of the daily blossoms. Here are today's.
Some More Blossoms June 3, 2010 12:00 We now have two more. Also a not, we had deer attacks on front, heavily sprayed, and they devoured almost all of the buds. Earliest attack yet. They usually do not start till after H fulva has bloomed. We have the fence in place and moved all hybrids, species and crosses behind it. I can see the tracks as the walk around the fence, stalking it daily. We have also used bamboo screening to cover the garden and act and jump blinds, to keep them from their 8' jumps.
Orange Prelude May 28, 2010 12:00 We have a single Orange Prelude blossom a month early. This was a transplanted clump and the normal one is still waiting to bloom.
H flava (Apps) Blooms May 14, 2010 12:00 H flava from Apps bloomed today and is shown below. Note it is bright yellow and does have some brown tint on the sepals on the rear sides like H dumortierii. However H dumortierii is much darker in tine. Both are branched and H flava Apps is not as tall but that may be a location issue. Also not that thee H dumortierii is branched which we had not seen as clearly as before.
H dumortieri Blooms May 10, 2010 12:00 H dumortierii bloomed today. Here is the first bloom:
We also now have data on the four early blooming species. This year we have seen very early blooms. Perhaps that was driven by the very warm days we have had in April.
Buckeye Blooms May 9, 2010 12:00 The Stout hybrid Buckeye bloomed today. It is an aggressive grower and is an attractive plant being one of the first with what appears to be an eyezone. This is 20 days earlier than 2009!
H minor Blooms May 6, 2010 12:00 H minor bloomed today.
H middendorfii Blooms May 4, 2010 12:00 H middendorfii bloomed today. This was not the sentinel plant which we moved.
H middendorfii statistics have been recorded since 1992. We show it below. Note we recorded the date of first bloom from days from January 1. This year we have 123 days the shortest ever, and this may or may not be a trend.
H flava Bloom May 2, 2010 12:00 H flava has bloomed. This was an Olallie plant and we have buds on the Apps H flava (Siberia) but that appears to be two weeks from blooming. We also have the first buds on Orange Prelude, which I believe is the earliest yet. H middendorfii has yet to bloom, and it was formerly the earliest. However we moved H flava to a good location just last year so we have no records on that plant. I am amazed that we have so early an Orange Prelude however. H flava is shown below.
First Bloom 2010, Elfin A Stout April 30, 2010 13:00 Elfin is the first bloom of 2010 and came out today. It is a bright chrome yellow and has been the first blossom since I have planted it a few years ago,
We also have a wonderful set of leaves on the H fulva variagata.
H middendorfii and H flava Buds April 15, 2010 16:00 Buds from H middendorfii and H flava have appeared as of today. Also we show buds from Elfin which are expanding rapidly.
Spring is Here! April 7, 2010 09:00 The first bud has appeared. It is on the Stout hybrid Elfin which has always seemed to be an early bloomer. It is also a robust seed producer as well. I expect H middendorfii to sprout buds in a week or two since we have had a great deal of rain as well as very warm April weather, almost 87 F.
Seedlings Doing Well February 22, 2010 06:00 The thousands of seedlings have been doing well since we planted them almost seven weeks ago. We have not yet performed a count but the growth is good. There seems to be just one exception and that is the set of species seeds but we will wait them out.
Seed Bloom Trends January 31, 2010 06:00 We have been plotting seed bloom trends for the past twenty years. The plot below shows the scatter of the following points: 1. We calculated for a set of species and hybrids the slope of the bloom time, days per year, in the 20 year bloom data for each. That is as we had shown earlier we determined the bloom time for each hybrid for each year and then calculated the regression slope per year. 2. We then plotted these slopes versus the average date of first bloom, namely days from January 1 of each year. This is the chart below. 3. A positive slope number means it blooms later and a negative slope number means it blooms earlier. Now we see that there are two early species blooming about 140 days from January 1, and they seem both to be blooming earlier each year, yet ever so slightly. On the other hand the others seem to be spread out being equally early and late except for one, which was Orange Prelude. That seems to be blooming a day earlier each year!
Some Data on Global Warming January 29, 2010 14:00 We have always taken records of temperature and rainfall as well as plant blooming date. These records provide us with an ongoing record of whether there is in our location a global warming effect. Namely plants are wonderful sensors since their bloom date is driven by three factors. First, sunlight, which to data has not created any global crises in that we are going to have a global blackout due to failure of the sun or the earth no longer rotating due to some human interference. Second, is the growing conditions of the summer before, generally driven by moisture or rain in the prior year. Third is the temperature of the current year. There is clear mathematical model for these but we do have data. First we present data on temperature and rain for the past twenty years. We see little if any temperature change and in fact if we use a linear fit is slightly decreasing. Second we noted the jump in rainfall in 2003 and we do not know if that is cyclic, namely years of rain and years of less rain. The average is generally 48".
Second we present the chart below which is the slope in increase or decrease per year of the first flowering date of various hybrids and species. Thus for H middendorfii it is negative which means it is flowering earlier each year. In contrast Hyperion is flowering later each year. As is Mallard. On the other hand we see Orange Prelude, one of the earliest hybrids, flowering earlier at a rate more than any other. We will be examining this at more depth as the year go by.
Seeds Planted January 1, 2010 14:00 We have just planted all of the seeds from 2009. They will sit and sprout forth for their two month period inside and then in early March they will go out into the greenhouse for a hardening. Then in early April we will pot them. Thus far we have had a great yield of seed and no losses to deer or fungi attack. The use of the small paper jeweler's envelopes worked superbly. We have a batch of interesting self crosses and species for planting as well. Well we have kicked off the 2010 season as usual.
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