In this Philadelphia Inquirer article, Jason Parker from Davey's Warminster office explains how seasonal weather changes are impacting local trees.
While temperatures dropped into the 20s elsewhere in the region early Wednesday, including Atlantic City, the blossoms and blooms in Philly evidently benefited from some unnatural protection.
The official temperature at Philadelphia International Airport did not make it below 33 degrees, the National Weather Service reported, and it’s highly likely that the city is going to see its second-earliest last freeze of the season in 150 years of record-keeping.
Some of those spectacular blooms on the older magnolia trees lost some of their glory, said arborist Jason Parker, district manager with the Davey Tree Expert Co., in Warminster, Bucks County.
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