April 9, 2020. With just a couple of clicks, you can help the USA National Phenology Network’s Track a Lilac citizen science project. Phenologists consider lilacs to be a crucial tool in tracking the Earth’s warming. Phenology is the science of measuring our climate with repeating biological events, such as the blooming of lilacs. Since…
Oct. 7, 2019. In this interesting story by Heather Brown of WCCO TV News, she talks to a Circle Pines, MN gardener with lilacs reblooming – in October! She interviews Julie Weisenhorn, an associate extension professor at the Department of Horticulture at the University of Minnesota who helps us understand this unusual phenomenon. Only the…
April 21, 2018. How can lilacs teach us about our environment? They’re telling us that our climate is changing. Phenologists consider lilacs to be a crucial tool in tracking the Earth’s warming. Phenology is the science of measuring our climate with repeating biological events, such as the blooming of lilacs.