The results so far
, 24 March 2017
Hi Bulb Buddies,
We’ve had lots of flower records in! Spring is truly here.
The results so far give us an average flowering date for the Crocus of 3rd March, and an average flowering date for the Daffodil of 8th March.
Last year the average flowering date for the Crocus was 10th March and the average flowering date for the Daffodil was 15th March. So the flower data entries shared so far indicate that our plants have flowered earlier this year than last year!
The graphs on the right show the results so far for temperature, rainfall and sunlight hours compared with last year. From these we can see that although the average temperatures were much lower October-January, there was a sharp increase in February with temperatures exceeding those of the previous year. We can also see that although rainfall was much lower, sunlight hours were higher for the October-January period than they were the previous year. It’s likely that a warm February and high sunlight hours resulted in our bulbs flowering slightly earlier this spring!
Thank you for all your lovely comments Bulb Buddies. I’m glad to hear that you are enjoying the project. Keep up the good work!
Professor Plant
Your comments:
Weather comments:
Ysgol Pentrefoelas: Mae hi wedi bob yn andros o sych. Ryden ni wedi bob allan yn chwarae bob dydd.
Carnbroe Primary School: It rained most days but it was not too cold. On Monday and Thursday the sun was out and the sky was blue, it felt like Spring. Still no signs of our bulbs flowering. Maybe next week.
Ysgol Glanyfferi: It is starting to feel like spring.
Arkholme CE Primary School: Our first crocus bulb has flowered and is looking good and healthy. We have also moved the plant pots into the sunlight so hopefully they will flower too. The daffodils from last year have grown also the weather has been improving and there has been more sunlight.
Broad Haven Primary School: The garden is looking lovely with the pots of crocus and daffodils flowering. On Thursday the temperature got up to 15.5 at lunchtime. Today (Friday) the sun has come out this afternoon. The children are very excited because their bulbs from last year which we planted in the bank are now starting to flower.
Stanford in the Vale Primary School: Hello, this week it has been cold and hot and it has been a really good week because we have had a delivery of two new trolleys and we even invested in a wormery which is a big hit with our foundation friends.
Flower comments:
Ysgol Pentrefoelas: Fy mlodyn yw y cyntaf I agor y flwyddyn hon,ond y llynedd nath o ddim agor o gwbwl.
Ysgol Pentrefoelas: blwyddyn dwytha mi ddaru y cenin pedr flodeuo ar y 21ain o Fawrth, 2016.
New Monkland Primary School: We noticed that our crocus plants started to grow slightly later than our daffodils. We were so excited to see them growing in our plant pots.
Ysgol Deganwy: All of them of grown and most people have taken them home.
New Monkland Primary School: We were so excited to see our plants starting to grow and the class enjoyed getting to see the Daffodil in their plant pots.
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I like that it’s blue not purple.
Beulah School: :):D All of our flowers have flowered except one :( :P
We have enjoyed our project :D ;)
Carbrain Primary School: We have flowers. :)
Carnbroe Primary School: My daffodil opened on the Friday and it has a small flower.
Severn Primary: I like it cos it is little and cute.
Severn Primary: Sadly a football hit my daffodil and it fell off.
Severn Primary: When I saw my flower it was so beautiful and I was happy.
Severn Primary: I like it cos the colour yellow is bright and the colour of the sun.
Severn Primary: It was a long time you af to wait a long time to open the daffodil.
Severn Primary: For some reason my flower never grew.
Severn Primary: Thank you for the spring bulb project.
Ellel St John's CE Primary School: We think that the crocuses have been water logged because when we went to measure them they were all floppy and droopy.
St. Michael's Primary School: The daffodil has not produced a flower.
Carnbroe Primary School: It rained lots this week but we checked on our flowering bulbs every day. Many of our bulbs in the pots flowered. The daffodils and crocus in the ground also flowered, hooray!
Auchenlodment Primary School: Nearly all of our crocuses have opened, we're now excitedly waiting for our daffodils to bloom.
Our Lady of Peace Primary School: When we go out it is fun and when it is raining we get soaked.
Our Lady of Peace Primary School: It was fun planting the flowers. I like Daffodil.
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I enjoyed looking after it and watching it grow.
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I enjoyed the whole experience
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I enjoyed planting it and taking it home.
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I liked watching the stages of growth.
St Robert's R.C Primary School: I had fun taking part.
Barmston Village Primary School: My doffodil is quite small but the flower is beautiful.
Barmston Village Primary School: My daffodil is very tall compared to some of the others.
Barmston Village Primary School: My daffodil is smaller than some others but I think my sign might have been in the way of the sun getting to the plant.
Barmston Village Primary School: We've noticed the crocuses have a different flower to the ones we planted in our village last year. Your crocuses have smaller pointier leaves than ours.
Barmston Village Primary School: My daffodil is only small and my crocus didn't grow. I wonder if I didn't plant my correctly.
Ellel St John's CE Primary School: We had 15 crocus' were open on Wednesday but when we checked on Friday there were 27 crocus'.
Ellel St John's CE Primary School: 8 of our daffodils are open and the tallest of them (When we measured them on Monday) was 250mm.
Broad Haven Primary School: We are delighted we have our crocus and daffodils flowering. But it was very rainy on Thursday.
Broad Haven Primary School: We have the double- first crocus and first daffodil!! The bulbs from last year’s project are now flowering in the bank by our garden.
Broad Haven Primary School: Yes ours flowered first. A purple crocus.
Ysgol Deganwy: all of the flowers have budded.
