Post Your Bloom Dates - 2010

[drobbins]

I'm always open to ideas, keep em coming
I think my idea of animating the blooms across the map and printing the date for the latest update would be easier to do. it also get away from the problem of making each icon contain a date, the size would be a problem that way. that also fits in with my idea of showing curves that indicate how GDD's are progressing. I could also color code the icons by date, that's not to hard. I'll try to play with that some. so many things to do. did you notice spring is coming quick

Dave

[USCBeeMan]

1/22/10
37130
Murfreesboro, TN

Small little white flowers on creeping thick weed. Will need to post a pic.

[DRUR]

•zipcode

75844; 75801

•date when the plant first bloomed

January 25, 2010;

•name of the plant

Elm Tree, dandelions, henbit; Juniper; willow bush (?)

any comment

Bees are loaded with yellow pollen (3 out of 4 bees avg.), and every now and then one comes in with a load of gray pollen. I have been watching the Elms and dandelions and today is the first day they were really blooming consistantly. Early Junipers have already bloomed and are making berries, some are late and just getting started, don't know why they look the same to me. Not sure about the real name for the willow bush. These bushes grow in wet areas and along the edges of ponds, evergreen, 4-7 ft. tall, medium to narrow green leaves (about an inch wide at the base, 3-4 inches long tapering to a point), small little buds about 1/8th of an inch, maybe smaller.

[DRUR]

zipcode

75801, 75839, 75844;

date when the plant first bloomed

January 26, 2010

name of the plant

Chickweed

any comment

My wife is making chickweed salve.

[Buffalolick]

30052 Dandelions, winter honeysuckle (L. fragrantissima) I saw the first bloom today..smelled it before I saw it..I love that plant...also Japanese Apricot (Prunus mume) at a client's house is in full bloom and heavly worked by honeybees. Also various Camelia japonica blooming and I see bees on those flowers. Henbit is getting close. Will be close to 60 degrees all week but chance of snow for the week end.

[drobbins]

Hi Folks,

I did a maintenance run on the database I'm using to store all this info.
It goes and collects weather info for each zipcode you folks post a bloom date for. It gets the weather info from weatherunderground.com and figures out growing degree days.
So data for your zipcode should now be current back to 2006 for all zipcodes you've posted stuff for, or at least all the data weatherunderground has.

Looks like it's been chilly this year

Dave

[iwombat]

Here in the NW we had the warmest Jan on record. Looks like Feb is shaping up that way too. Nothing blooming yet by me, but I expect things to start happening very soon.

[KQ6AR]

Lupine
94519

[ga.beeman]

30161= henbit jan. 18, wild mustard jan. 5, maple jan. 30....south GA.

[USCBeeMan]

37130
Mufreesboro, TN

1/22/10 (Name of flower stated earlier in thread)

Chickweed

[RayMarler]

95901
February 7, 2010
saw a wild purple vetch bloom at the mail box today.
wild mustard I've seen for the last couple weeks here and there.
wild radish I've noticed out today here and there
some kind of creeping ground cover with purple blooms, don't know what it is, but seems to be some kind of flowerbed type plant around my propane tank that is in the shade all day.

95828
February 7, 2010
Red Bud (flowering quince) blooms opening and buzzing with bees, is a very good early bloom that bees love.
Wild mustard and radish here also

[walking bird]

91361

Ceonothus (California Lilac); the white/pink variety. Many of the chaparral hills in this area look like they're dusted with snow, the bloom is so heavy.

[JP]

We've had quite a bit of Hop clover (not that they get much if anything from Hop) and some Ladino.

Forgot to add some vetch (purple) Japanese Magnolia, and red maple.

...JP

[KQ6AR]

ornamental peach
94519

[richhitch]

River Birch
Juliaetta Idaho 83535
2-12-2010

[mejess]

Wow, Wormspit...what a difference 30 miles makes. I'm up in Bartonville (just south of Denton, West of FlowerMound next to Argyle) and we don't have any blooms yet. Dandelions are usually the first.
Jess

[honeydreams]

my cherry Laurel is starting to bloom. way to early.
98563

[drobbins]

I need zipcodes to catalog this stuff folks

Dave

[mejess]

76226 Bartonville/Argyle, TX
02/18/2010
Dandelion- have scattered blooms throughout the yard. First noticed today.

Moss Verbena or Verbena tenuisecta (Verbenaceae). I look at these tiny violet/purple flowers every day during this time. Today was the first of the actual blooms. These flowers are part of a Texas Wildflower seed mix

I have over-seeded my yard with Texas Wildflowers. The Verbena is always the first to emerge and bloom.
It looks like most of the mix has now begun to emerge, but so far these are the only blooms.

My peach tree has significant beginnings of buds, as does the apricot tree. The plum tree looks like it is getting bumps, but that's it.

Stay tuned...
Jess

[KQ6AR]

Plum
94519