re: #28 J.S.

We’ve got record high temperatures right now in Edmonton…complete with dandelions going to seed! piture here…(btw, there was another odd weather event here — back in sept/oct — the frost and snow arrived exceptionally early, killed off everything, including my tomatoes. Anyway, the weird thing was this — the deciduous trees had green leaves, yet there was a blanket of snow on the ground! The University of Alberta’s agricultural department received reams of phone calls asking what was going on? The deciduous trees had not changed color — leaves were all green — yet snow had fallen (in some areas, it was very, very bizarre to see this — you’d see an alder tree, snow on the ground, and around the tree a ring of fallen leaves — and the leaves were all green…the green leaves apparently knocked off the trees by the snow fall…(very odd…no pictures of that, though…) Oh, the people at the Univ of Alberta said a similar phenomenon had not occurred for at least the last 40 odd years…very freakish…

I thought deciduous plants/trees were ‘light’ sensitive with ‘temperature’ playing little or no role. So what do I know?