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Dave Mance III2020-06-05 10:49:442020-06-08 10:50:26Starflower (Trientalis borealis) is a 4-inch high plant that doesn’t last very long and has small flowers, typically just one or two. The leaves are in a whorl, commonly of seven leaves and the small white flowers usually have seven petals. I don’t know of any other plants that grow in sevens, but maybe there are some. Another feature of starflower that is unusual is the flower stalks: at about an inch long, they are as slender as a fine thread. You can barely see them.
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Dave Mance III2020-06-03 10:48:122020-06-08 10:49:00The year of the toad? They seem to be everywhere, all sizes, and now trilling from ponds.
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Dave Mance III2020-06-02 10:46:362020-06-08 10:47:28The hot, hot weather in late May took a toll on apple blossoms. They seem to have opened up on one day and disappeared the next. Of course, my sense of time, and most everyone else’s, may be a bit off, due to isolation and discombobulation.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-31 09:53:412020-06-08 09:54:35Tonight, they’re calling for frost – hopefully the last frost – in cold spots.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-30 09:52:332020-06-08 09:53:17Our dog flushed a grouse off a nest containing just three eggs this morning. Grouse normally incubate 9 to 14 eggs but when, after shooing off the dog, I reached into the brush pile to straighten out the situation, the eggs were warm, suggesting that this female was calling it quits at three.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-29 09:50:012020-06-08 09:51:16The leaves of sugar maple seedlings don’t look at all like maple leaves. They have no lobes or very small lobes at best. You can see the seed leaves, the cotyledons, below. Last year’s seedlings are very small but they have maple shaped leaves – and no cotyledons. Plenty of both this year.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-28 09:47:192020-06-08 09:48:36Showy orchis is flowering.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-27 11:39:482020-05-28 18:38:52Record high temperatures for May were recorded in Burlington (95°) and Saint Johnsbury (92°). On the top of Mount Mansfield it hit 85°. That’s the warmest temperature ever recorded there, on any month, according to a National Weather Service tweet. Fact-check pending.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-25 10:41:092020-05-25 10:41:09Nice warm weather has gotten carpenter ant queens up and about. Lots of winged females looking to start a new colony in any rotting wood that’s lying around.
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Dave Mance III2020-05-24 10:38:152020-05-25 10:39:44Toads in the garden and in the lawn. It’s time to do some mowing, but toads come first.