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Growing Degree Day Meaning for Plants and Insects

As a follow-up to the previous piece on pollinators and native plants, I thought a brief discussion of Growing Degree Days (GDD) would be interesting. I seem to do this every year or two, but it really helps to reinforce our previous discussion on the relationship between plants and pollinators. Nature provides plants at the right timeContinue reading “Growing Degree Day Meaning for Plants and Insects”

Growing Degree Days- How We Know When Plants Will Flower

Phenology, as simply defined by Merriam-Webster, is a branch of science dealing with the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena (such as bird migration or plant flowering.) Growing Degree Days (GDD) is a tool used in this study that calculates the accumulation of warmer temperature  days over a season.  In the field of horticulture and your gardens, thisContinue reading “Growing Degree Days- How We Know When Plants Will Flower”