{"id":80,"date":"2023-04-09T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T18:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-04-09T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T18:12:29","slug":"phenology-post-4-9-tree-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/2023\/04\/09\/phenology-post-4-9-tree-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenology Post 4\/9: Tree Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I returned to my tree over the weekend to observe phenological changes that may have occured. As a reminder, my tree is an American Beech located in Centennial Woods. It&#8217;s on a slope above Centennial Brook, surrounded by several other beech stems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in this picture, there has been some bud development! The buds on the tree are much longer and fuller than they were last time I visited. They still have not bloomed or broken through yet, but they are much larger than they were previously. This is a sign that they are getting close to blooming, and a distinct sign of the phenological changes that are occuring as the winter turns to spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2920-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2923-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG-2921-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the new growth on my tree, there was also a lot more undergrowth that has sprouted up since I last was there. Ferns and grasses are starting to grow again, breaking through the soil. The woods are looking much more alive as things begin to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to my tree over the weekend to observe phenological changes that may have occured. As a reminder, my tree is an American Beech located in Centennial Woods. It&#8217;s on a slope above Centennial Brook, surrounded by several other beech stems. As you can see in this picture, there has been some bud development! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/2023\/04\/09\/phenology-post-4-9-tree-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phenology Post 4\/9: Tree Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"bmowery","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/author\/bmowery\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmowery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}