On March 4, the National Park Service boldly told us that the cherry blossom peak will be over by the end of March.
March 4, 2013
The National Park Service announced that the peak bloom (defined as when 70% of the blossoms are open), will be March 26 – March 30.
Update: Peak Bloom Dates and Festival Information Announced | National Cherry Blossom Festival
It is sad that the peak occurred before the first blossoms appeared.
“Paging Steven Goddard…
Paging Steven Goddard…
…Steven Goddard please collect your Government issue glasses as soon as possible.”
The cherry blossoms for this year came so early that they were mixed in with last year’s blooms.
Climate Changing Global Warming causes anything and everything weird.
Sorry, we missed them this year.
But next year’s blossoms will be coming out many months early, sometime this April.
The trees are totally screwed up.
Please tell the children what mankind has done so they are not as confused as the trees are.
A hefty carbon tax is the only cure for this floral dilemma.
Check your geography and history books, then pick up a basic botany book and see if you’ve missed something. California is not a region where cherry trees grow in a normal fashion. I live in Colorado, another place where cherry trees were really never meant to grow. Here, at lower elevations, they blossom in early spring. In California, where the temperatures never (used to) get cold enough to scarify, the trees basically blossom out of whack. When a temperate climate sets in (which is the next step in our small Ice Age) over CA, the trees will begin acting normally. As in normal for cherry trees.
I was referring to the DC Cherry Blossoms.
You missed my satire on Global Warming.
Blossoming (inflorescence) occurs because of a number of factors. Springtime waxing daily illumination has a bit to do with it, so longer hours of sunlight can be correlated, but that is only one small role in overall inflorescence. Just because some human working PR for a festival looked at peak from last year and then applied it to this year doesn’t mean the trees will know.
Peak will hit later this year. And like always, it will be due to a release of hormones that signals the end of winter. Bud break does not depend on a human calendar, Steven.
“Just because some human working PR for a festival looked at peak from last year and then applied it to this year doesn’t mean the trees will know.”
Trip, then somebody needs to inform the trees… a Town Crier with a megaphone ?
I hear from Prince Charles that talking to your plants makes them grow better.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/prince-charles-enjoys-talking-to-his-plants
I believe.
It is the root system temperature that allows the highly filtered H2O uptake, which outweighs anything else…
Just went by the DC Cherry Blossoms this afternoon and they are still MIA.