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Phenology

Over recent years, the importance of phenological data concerning leaf opening, flowering and leaf fall of plants, as proxy climate indicators has become established. This type of material can help to provide, not only proxy climate data for periods during which no instrumental records were kept, but also valuable knowledge of how our changing climate is affecting the natural world today.

In the mid-20th century, a number of phenological gardens were set up in Europe with the intention of employing observations of certain common species of plants as indicators of climate change. They used genetically identical material provided by a central coordinating laboratory in Germany. Though there are many such gardens on mainland Europe, only a handful were set up England and the Republic of Ireland and none in Northern Ireland. Armagh Observatory, with its long meteorological series would be a prime location for such a garden. An area lying in the western corner of the Astropark has been identified and cleared in preparation for planting in Spring 2004.