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Yesterday’s news – ‘Shiro-fugen’ May 29, 2023 May 13, 2023. The most interesting, most magical, longest in bloom cherry tree around right now is 'Shiro-fugen'. These opened with white flowers and bronze leaves. Many still had white flowers… Read more
Yesterday’s news – double pink ‘Kanzan’, ‘Royal Burgundy’ and ‘Kiku-zakura’ May 10, 2023 May 7, 2023. After such a grey April, who wasn't excited to see Vancouver city streets colouring up with over 10,000 'Kanzan' cherries, big double pink blossoms forming archways over so… Read more
Yesterday’s news – ‘Shiro-fugen’ and ‘Ichiyo’ May 7, 2023 May 3, 2023. It's almost all fluffy double blossoms from here on out. Here are two that are not all that rare. These are easily distinguished when the flowers are opening,… Read more
Yesterday’s news – double white ‘Ichihara-tora-no-o’ and ‘Shogetsu’ May 3, 2023 April 30, 2023. The festival has officially ended, but one month is far too short for showing off our beautiful blossoms. As long as the Cherry Scouts keep posting them, we'll… Read more
Yesterday’s news – rare single whites – ‘Mikuruma-gaeshi’ and ‘Ojochin’ April 30, 2023 April 25, 2023. Here are two rare large single blossoms, both sometimes carrying some extra petals. 'Mikuruma-gaeshi' has been featured here before, but this photo is especially nice, in that you… Read more
Yesterday’s news – double blossom ‘Takasago’ and ‘Shirotae’ April 25, 2023 April 21, 2023. Double blossoms today! Still not the ubiquitous late-season 'Kanzan', which are biding their time. It's hard to beat the beauty of these dark purplish-red 'Takasago' buds set against… Read more
Yesterday’s news – single pink blossoms April 21, 2023 April 20, 2023. Today we'll do rare single pink blossoms. These Schmitt cherry flowers are so small, on trees so tall, that they're usually missed being noticed at all. This photo… Read more
Yesterday’s news – rare single-white blossoms April 20, 2023 April 17, 2023. Our popular widely planted 'Akebono' trees are starting to fade, and it's not quite time yet for the even more widely-planted 'Kanzan' trees, so it's time for us… Read more
Yesterday’s news – pink cascades April 17, 2023 April 12, 2023. Pink blossoms today, on weeping cherry trees. "Shidare" (drooping) in Japanese cherry blossom names is used to describe the tree form called "weeping" in English. So, 'Beni-shidare' can… Read more
Yesterday’s news – Single whites: ‘Somei-yoshino’, ‘Akebono’ and ‘Umineko’/’Snow Goose’ April 12, 2023 April 11, 2023. More single white blossoms. Here are two cultivars that are often confused, and another that could cause some confusion were it more common. 'Somei-yoshino' is not so common… Read more
Yesterday’s news – ‘Afterglow’ April 11, 2023 April 9, 2023. It was several years before our Cherry Scouts found 'Afterglow' trees. They were all listed as 'Akebono', and indeed they are a different cultivar of the same Prunus… Read more
Yesterday’s news – 2023 International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition April 9, 2023 The peak bloom date for Vancouver's location in the 2023 International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition was April 7. Read more
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