Stephen Vermette, Department of Geography &...
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The Weather Garden is a product of the Campus Beautification Committee - making things such as landscape, sidewalks and flowerbeds a priority in beautifying the campus. The Weather Garden is a demonstration project to add an educational component to the beautification. The Classroom Buildings fourth floor terrace is an incubator to test out ideas, in the hopes of incorporating success into campus wide gardens. 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 early morning. The variety planted in the Weather Garden is ‘Heavenly Blue’; the blossoms color is sky blue with a white sun shining in the center of each blossom. Celosia bloom in all the colors of a glowing sunset. Prostrate growing plants in a ’Köppen Cimate Zone (cold desert) or Bsk. The Moon Flower unfurls in the evening (around 6:00 p.m.) or on overcast 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 the upper reaches by numerous flower heads, which dance and sway gracefully in response to the wind Four O’clocks produce trumpet shaped flowers that open each afternoon at about 4:00 PM. A weather stick is a traditional means of weather prediction used by some Native Americans. Mums: Reduced light in the fall stimulates the mum plant to create its fantastic blooms. The Billion Bug Highway describes an enormous herd of insects that ride the winds above! Spanish moss is an example of an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients and water solely from the air and rainfall. Tree rings can tell you something about the growth rate of the tree, as a proxy to changing moisture and temperature . Wind cannot be seen, but its feel on our face, its sound to our ears, or the swirling and movement of an object in its path tells us it is real. The leaf of Rhododendrons droop and curl as the temperature approaches freezing. The Prayer Plant bends its leaves upright in the evening (dark conditions), as if in prayer. Rain Gauge
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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
