Dear Ed, In a life scattered with a variety of apple trees, this photo depicts a first: an end of growing season apple ripe for picking sitting at the same time on a tree sporting FOUR start-of-spring season flowers.
Granted, we’ve had a somewhat abnormal growing year.
But even for the climate sceptics behind their wall of scepticism, this sudden very late flower burst must raise a question or two.
Like, why is this apple tree apparently deranged and flowering shortly before winter?
Is it getting climate, soil and airborne signals which tell it “time to grow?” (Yes it is also putting out new spring growing shoots – some up to four (4) inches long – 10 centimeters).
Or, as scientists are reporting, why are some northern hemisphere tree species heading NORTH as the climate changes?
And why are some tree species dying after apparently choking on the high-carbon emission diets which surround them?
Will such scientific findings shake the roots of the Carbon Credits Clubs which are so urgently planting “emission offsets” on New Zealand farmlands?
