Tree Talks & Walks: Stanley Park

Date: September 21, 2024 | 9:45AM-12:30PM

Guides: Nina Shoroplova

Location: Stanley Park

Over a dozen ornamental cherry blossom cultivars grow in Stanley Park, starting with ‘Autumnalis Rosea’ in February and ending with ‘Shiro-fugen’ and ‘Kanzan’ in May. What happens in this four-hundred-hectare park of gardens and trails in the other months? A great deal of leafing, budding, blossoming, pollinating, and fruiting on both deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

Nina Shoroplova will be leading a two- to two-and-a-half hour walk in Stanley Park on Saturday, September 21, the weekend of the Autumnal Equinox. We will meet at 9:45 a.m. under a catalpa tree, the Catalpa speciosa in Devonian Harbour Park, near the Georgia Street entrance. During the tour, you’ll get to see…

• native evergreens, e.g., a Pacific madrone,
• native deciduous trees, e.g., a bigleaf maple,
• ornamental evergreens, a sugi,
• ornamental deciduous trees, e.g., a Japanese scholar-tree, a sweet chestnut, a princess tree, and a European beech
• native and ornamental shrubs: e.g., oceanspray, ninebark, buttercup winterhazel, and a harlequin glorybower,
• and many, many more woody plants.

Nina is the author of Legacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, a cherry scout, a VCBF Tree Talk and Walk leader, and a Vancouver Master Gardener.

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