Fortuitous Freak Freeze
Blasts our Beautiful Blossom Babies!
The National Park's service, Michael Stachowicz is the man in Washington DC when it comes to predicting when the National Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC peak. So when our soon to Blossom Sakura in Wooster Square got covered in snow, then completely encapsulated in ice with an extended
deep freeze, I knew who to turn to for answers.
Mike said let him know. Kind of makes you
feel little Blossomy inside knowing that
Washington is waiting with baited
blossom breath waiting to see what
happens to our Sakura Square Sweeties.
Turns out, Mike and I are in the same boat.
We haven't had this type of ice storm
when the blossoms were in critical stages:
Extension of florets:
average 12-14 days to peak
Peduncle Elongation:
(Frost Critical, but what about a freeze!) 6-10 days top peak.
Puffy Pink/White: 4-6 days to peak
I would say most trees are in the 6-10 days to peak.
There are some behind, extension of florets
could peak close to our festival,
especially because it will be colder
over the next 8 days.
However! That is if there is no damage to
our Historic,
World Famous Wooster Square.
Let's take a look at the damage
First photos from Tuesday.
Frozen Flower Fun!
Shimmering Square
Everything had a coat of ice...
some plants may not recover...
Icy Pink
Tender Tots
Tears of Ice
Endangered Blossoms
High Hanami Hopes
Frozen in time
Frozen Blossom Prisms
All of Hughes Place looked like this to the naked
eye, it was difficult to translate to digibits.
On hold?
Weight of the World!
Morning Mindfulness
Cold seat
Well, will these continue?
Let's look at the Blossoms today,
Wednesday April 6, 2016
Some browning can be seen.
But the buds were still hanging in.
Not too many on the ground.
Rest in Pink
Melted and not too bad
Pink Nation!
Park, People, Pizza!
Still cold
Blossom most along got whammed.
Still, it depends on the age of the tree and
where it is on how well they will fare.
This is the tree on Hughes Place that is
most along, and most damage.
Browner Downer
Park draws interest.
Window Florets
Some damage on these pink purses
Lookin good
Pink stars
We dodged a bullet, but got grazed!
No harm, no flower
Healthy pink babies
Come see the show...
it doesn't last long
So what's the prognosis?
My best guess is most of the park is about 6-10 days from peaking. Hughes place first usually.
From the photos, I can see that there was about
maybe 10-20% affected. Unless those
healthy pink or extended florets just
fall of after being frozen.
Alas, only time will tell.
If you can get to the park this weekend, the Cherry trees will be in all sorts of blooming state.
Grab your favorite device and start
digitizing our dutiful dandies!
But you know, that the Blossom Blogger will
be all over these yearly most dearly blossoms.
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Daffy's not done!
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