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Doc<\/p>\n
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Springtime in Vancouver is well established.\u00a0The sun makes more frequent outbreaks, the fantastic\u00a0cherryblossom period that made our streets so pink is drawing to an end, shy tender green leaves have appeared on the tip of deciduous bare trees…<\/p>\n
What about conifers? Static, boring, would you say?<\/p>\n
Look closer when you walk through the forest,\u00a0conifers are\u00a0quitting\u00a0dormancy\u00a0as well. Buds that\u00a0protected vegetative\u00a0meristems are swelling, swelling, and…eventually breaking, pressured by the appearing needle primordia underneath the protective scales…<\/p>\n
As I am spending quite much time in a Sitka spruce garden experiment, It appears to me that each bud has a kind of personality on its own. Let me introduce some of them:<\/p>\n
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Dopey<\/p>\n
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