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  • From: Jacque Greenleaf <jacque@book-woman.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Phenology: Article by Lee Barnes
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:36:19 -0700

If you're going to keep track anyway -

why not also participate in Project Budburst?

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/



On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

>
> Phenology: Article by Lee Barnes
>
> "Phenology" is the study of periodic biological phenomena, such as
> flowering, breeding, and migration. Observation of growth and flowering
> times of native and common "indicator" plants is useful for timing your
> garden planting times or wild food harvesting. One should begin with a
> medium sized calendar on which you may make notes. (many calendars are
> on sale now, many at 1/2 price!) Learn to observe and note flowering
> times of showy native perennials, and common trees and shrubs. Good
> indicator plants include redbud, dogwood, and sourwood. Note any
> wildlife migrations such as the passage of spring robins, hawks and
> geese. With this accumulated biological time-piece, one can make better
> regional planting decisions such as, "plant corn when the leaves of the
> hickory are the size of a squirrel's ear." - useful guide since hickory
> are one of the later plants to "break" bud, perhaps helping planters to
> avoid late frosts or cold soils. Listen for local "lore" on planting,
> weather changes, etc. for your micro-region, and correlate this with
> your seasonal notes.
> We should accumulate this information for our micro-regions and share
> the findings - please send me your comments and recommendations so that
> we can develop a master list of plant phenomena and guild
> interactions.-- Lee Barnes
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