Agricultural consultant Isidoro T. Cabrera has prepared a graph that he believes the Flame Tree Arts Festival committee may want to study so that in the future, the annual event can be celebrated when the flame trees are blooming.
In the past 10 years, Cabrera said he has observed and recorded when the flame trees’ blooming period takes place.
According to his graph, flame tree leaves start falling by late March. By mid-April, the flowers begin to bloom.
Cabrera said the flame trees are in full bloom by the second week of June.
Cabrera said this is the time when the trees will “really lift up the spirit of the festivities.”
This is the 29th year of the festival.
Some flame trees on island are in full bloom now like those at the Garapan Fishing Base, but Cabrera said there must be something wrong with those trees.
“There must be other factors that make these trees bloom too early. It is not normal,” he added.
Flame trees were planted along Airport Road in 1978 by members of the Youth Conservation Group headed by Bill Sakovich.
Every year, photographers, both amateurs and professionals, take pictures of the blooming flame trees, which were also planted along Beach Road and are one of the island’s most famous attractions.
