First Bloom Diary - Joyce M.
Tice
Why am I putting it here? Well, next year when I want to look at it it will be here and I won't have to hunt all over for it. It will be easier to maintain here where it does not get buried under stacks of other papers.
Tracking the First Bloom date reflects variation on weather patterns
and is now a way to track the progress of Global Warming.
| Flower/Plant | 2008 | 2009 |
| Crocus | Apr 10 | |
| Miniature Daffodil | Apr 12 | |
| Daffodil "King Alfred" | Apr 16 | |
| Hepatica in Woods - full bloom- Don't know when it started. | bef Apr 16 | |
| Daffodil 'Ice Follies" | Apr 17 | |
| Forsythia | Apr 19 | |
| Heat wave 88 degrees, dry | Apr 19 | |
| Pulmonaria [Lungwort] | Apr 20 | |
| Bleeding Heart in woods | Apr 20 | |
| Shadblow | Apr 22 | |
| Red trillium in woods | Apr 23 | |
| Trout Lily in woods | Apr 23 | |
| Grape Hyacinth | Apr 25 | |
| Rhododendron PJM | Apt 26 | |
| Baltimore Oriole and Kingbird Arrived | Apr 27 | |
| Lamium [purple and white] | Apr 27 | |
| White Violets | ||
| Primrose | Apr 29 | |
| Rose Breasted Grosbeaks (2 males at feeder) | May 01 | |
| Dwarf White/Lavender Iris | May 03 | |
| Brown Thrasher Arrived | May 04 | |
| House Wren here | May 05 | |
| Cistena Plum [pink flowers] | May 07 | |
| Apple Blossoms | May 07 | |
| White Crowned Sparrow traveling through | May 10 | |
| Dwarf Purple Iris | May 11 | |
| Catbird home | May 11 | |
| Lilacs, Dark Purple & White | May 14 | |
| Blue Flax | May 20 | |
| Dk Pink low [true] geranium out back - one flower | May 21 | |
| Wild Geranium in woods | May 21 | |
| Lily of the Valley | May 27 | |
| Dayliliy [yellow, front of front garden - NOT Lemon Lily] | May 29 | |
| Oriental Poppy [blooming in town earlier] | May 29 | |
| One Purple Lupine opening | May 31 | |
| Medium Yellow Iris - No. 04 on 2007 Iris Diary | ||
| Pyrethrum | June 06 | |
| Siberian Iris | June 08 | |
| Wild Daisy | ||
| Tall yellow spiky primrose [back - yellow bed] | June 09 | |
| Lemon Lily ? | June 09 | |
| White Peony | June 10 | |
| Dark Pink Yarrow | ||
| Oenethera | June 14 | |
| Rudbeckia - Purple Cone Flower | June 27 | |
| Coreopsis | ||
| Black Hollyhock | ||
| Killdeer Chicks hatched |