Phenology

For the flowering portion of this exercise, plants were fairly easy to find. During my walk earlier today, I saw a beautiful plant that was clearly fully flowering.

For the dormant portion, I used a different plant. My friend's house is naturally covered in Morning Glory flowers, which create a scatter of rich purple flowers amongst the bright green leaves and attract life such as butterflies as well. However, since it is currently winter, the flowers are currently MIA. [note: I'm not sure why my picture still says "processing" after so long, but it's just a picture of the plain green leaves without the flowers.]

For the leaf portion, I found one tree (currently yet to be identified) which was in a unique position - some of its branches are completely bare, while the branches higher up on the tree are covered in leaves. I am unsure what could be causing this trend but it is very interesting!

הועלה ב-פברואר 15, 2013 12:49 לפנה"צ על ידי maeganblansett