Comments on: Magnolias already! https://www.scottarboretum.org/magnolias-already/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 By: Bill Costello https://www.scottarboretum.org/magnolias-already/#comment-993 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:59:43 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3744#comment-993 As of 3/20/12 the 50?f Growing Degree Day ( the standard measurement) was 72, last year it was 31 and 2010 was 61.

]]> By: Warren A. Jacobs https://www.scottarboretum.org/magnolias-already/#comment-992 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:36:00 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3744#comment-992 What’s the GDD count down there and how far ahead of last year is it? Do you think we need to start counting them earlier if we want them to truly correspond with phenology? (for those who have the need to put a number on things)

]]> By: Becky Robert https://www.scottarboretum.org/magnolias-already/#comment-991 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:22:31 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3744#comment-991 In reply to Rick Lowe.

Thanks Rick. Lots of trees are now blooming with the strike of warm weather. ‘Swarthmore Sentinel’ sister Magnolia stillata ‘Royal Star’ is making a great showing along Chester Road too. Did you catch the Prunus ‘Okame’ in full bloom over the Swarthmore College entrance rock?

Becky

]]> By: Rick Lowe https://www.scottarboretum.org/magnolias-already/#comment-990 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:08:44 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3744#comment-990 You must have read my mind. Just this morning, at about 7am, I was walking past this tree and saw it in full bloom. Wow, it sure seems early.

Best of luck for a beautiful spring full of Scott Arboretum blooms.

Rick

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