Tag Archives: dave cheung

  What a treat! Several of our sugar maples are blooming this year all over southern Ontario, from Barrie to Niagara, these native beauties are gracing our landscapes with blooms.  Its been 5 years since sugar maples were blooming like this. The cooler … Continue reading →

                           This cooler weather has been a nice break, slowing down plant development and reducing heat and desiccation stress on newly planted or harvested nursery stock.  We inched up … Continue reading →

Lots of new Plant Phenology indicators are starting to bloom this week!  That puts us somewhere between 20 and 35 GDD’s Base 10C in the GTA.  A little more in the southwest and a little less above Hwy 9.

We’ve had such a cool spring that when we did start to get some “heat” a few weeks ago, it hastened the development of some of our earliest flowering plants.  Instead of there being distinct periods of bloom, many of … Continue reading →