The Weather Garden is a product of the Campus Beautification Committee - makingthings such as landscape, sidewalks and flowerbeds a priority in beautifying thecampus. The Weather Garden is a demonstration project to add an educationalcomponent to the beautification. The Classroom Buildings fourth floor terrace is anincubator to test out ideas, in the hopes of incorporating success into campus widegardens. If nothing else, this effort has beautified a neglected garden on the terrace.

Sunflowers are heliotropes, following the sun in the sky until mature.Once mature, they face east.

The morning glory flowers unravel into full bloom in the earlymorning. The variety planted in the Weather Garden is ‘HeavenlyBlue’; the blossoms color is sky blue with a white sun shining in thecenter of each blossom.

Celosia bloom in all thecolors of a glowing sunset.

Prostrate growingplants in a ’KöppenCimate Zone (colddesert) or Bsk.

The Moon Flower unfurls in the evening (around 6:00 p.m.) or onovercast days, and stays open until the sun rises.

Stephen Vermette, Department of Geography & Planning

Cosmos presents itself as a cloudy mass of fresh green, crowned in theupper reaches by numerous flower heads, which dance and swaygracefully in response to the wind

Four O’clocks producetrumpet shaped flowersthat open each afternoonat about 4:00 PM.

A weather stick is a traditionalmeans of weather prediction usedby some Native Americans.

Mums: Reduced light in the fallstimulates the mum plant tocreate its fantastic blooms.

The Billion BugHighway describesan enormous herdof insects that ridethe winds above!

Spanish moss is an example of anepiphyte which absorbs nutrientsand water solely from the air andrainfall.

Tree rings can tellyou something aboutthe growth rate ofthe tree, as a proxyto changing moistureand temperature .

Wind cannot be seen, butits feel on our face, itssound to our ears, or theswirling and movement ofan object in its path tellsus it is real.

The leaf of Rhododendrons droop and curl asthe temperature approaches freezing.

The Prayer Plant bends its leaves uprightin the evening (dark conditions), as if inprayer.Rain Gauge