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So weird to me how trees can survive and thrive when they are dormant and lifeless for nearly 2/3 of the year.
Life in cold climates is so bizarre to me.
Where I live, I think the leaf/green season is pretty short, and those climates are even worse. 2 weeks of fall colors surely isn't worth it for a brown landscape for that covers the majority of the year.
Bradford Pear and Dogwoods have been awakening around Dallas which is not unheard of during the Winter months. As for the OP... Dallas does get green earlier than Atlanta on average, so showing them starting at the same time doesn't seem accurate.
I wonder what the leaf out time is for San Diego? In southern New Mexico on cottonwood trees it's about the beginning of December.
California is odd because it's so dependent on tree species, and many neighborhoods have evergreen palms, live oaks, eucalyptus etc that never lose their leaves. Many Bay Area deciduous trees are flowering now, and will be leafed out by early March.
In the East Coast, my experience was Connecticut, RI, and Eastern Mass are usually around May 15-20, DC around April 20-25. Suburbs in both areas usually trail urban areas by a week. I once flew from DC to Boston in early April and Washington was covered with flowering trees while Boston only had a few small buds out at best, not to mention a few patchy brown snow piles. On another occasion, I drove from Chicago to DC in early April and there wasn't a bud in sight until east of Pittsburgh, and around Frederick, MD there was a sudden explosion of buds and flowers.
California is odd because it's so dependent on tree species, and many neighborhoods have evergreen palms, live oaks, eucalyptus etc that never lose their leaves. Many Bay Area deciduous trees are flowering now, and will be leafed out by early March.
In the East Coast, my experience was Connecticut, RI, and Eastern Mass are usually around May 15-20, DC around April 20-25. Suburbs in both areas usually trail urban areas by a week. I once flew from DC to Boston in early April and Washington was covered with flowering trees while Boston only had a few small buds out at best, not to mention a few patchy brown snow piles. On another occasion, I drove from Chicago to DC in early April and there wasn't a bud in sight until east of Pittsburgh, and around Frederick, MD there was a sudden explosion of buds and flowers.
Yeah, there's about a 2 week gap between them blooming.
Has to the latest leaf out /green time in the lower 48 ...
I was there in late May ....no leaves yet....cold springs up there.
My wedding date is May 25th. Got married in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Fully green, almost summer.
Honeymoon, May 26th, drove to Duluth and the North Shore. Bare trees all over Duluth still. It was actually greener further north in Gooseberry Falls but it was that fresh spring greenery we usually get in early May in Minneapolis.
I was in the Smoky Mountains one year in early April. The fresh, light green leaves of early spring were everywhere.
One day we drove up to the top of Clingman's Dome which is the highest point in Tennessee. As we were gaining altitude, the trees got progressively more barren. It still looked like winter at the top, and the only green was from the few evergreens.
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