Final Blog Post

My Tree

I did not get to see my tree leaf out. When I first picked my tree it was still snowy out so it was dormant. Over the weeks that we watched our trees the buds had finally flowered about 2-3 weeks ago. The tree was still just flowering when I look my last photo of it this week. I believe that my tree is a Red Maple tree by what the flowers look like. I think that we all expected spring to come a little bit earlier this year. I also think that most of the other students also had late flowering trees.

While watching my tree I enjoyed checking on it to see if the buds had opened yet. It was a little bit discouraging because I thought that it would have flowered sooner. Because spring came so late but we had to take pictures of our tree every week towards the end of the semester there was several weeks where my tree was still not doing much. Finally the buds started turning from brown to red. I was glad that I got to at least see the tree flower. It was cool getting to track a tree and see it change with the seasons. I wish that we could have talked about our trees more in class so that we could all share about our trees and tell eachother where our trees were at. For example if the buds, flowers, or leaves were out yet. I also think that it could have provided some interesting in class discussions.

Two photos of my tree from the end of the semester.

Photo of the buds during the semester.

Photo of my tree at the beginning of the semester.