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A Playground for Pandora

Pandora cherry blossoms at Mount Pleasant Park in Vancouver

At Mount Pleasant park, you’ll find this adorable Pandora cherry tree. It has small blossoms with just a hint of pink at the tip of the petals.

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Did you know Pandora cherry blossoms don’t lose their petals? It’s the whole flower that falls to the ground. Check on the grass and you’ll see them.

Pandora cherry blossoms at Mount Pleasant Park in Vancouver

Mount Pleasant Park is located at 15th and Manitoba, but there are plenty more Pandora trees around the city. Use the neighbourhood map to find them.

(Tip: The four Pandora trees are looking spectacular behind the Brentwood Mall right now.)

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Pandora cherry trees spectacular at Mount Pleasant Park

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Mount Pleasant Park is a great location to see three beautiful Pandora cherry trees in bloom right now.

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The Pandora trees are bursting with blossoms (and bees!)

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This location can get quite windy (it’s a huge park), so you might have to be patient when you try to do close-ups:  the wind makes the branches move.

As you take your pictures, prepare to be (gently) smacked in the face by falling cherry blossoms.

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One characteristic of Pandora cherry blossoms is that the flowers fall whole.

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You will rarely see fallen cherry petals under a Pandora tree: only fallen blossoms.

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Mount Pleasant Park (Ontario, between 15th and 16th) is a great location for a hanami picnic: lots of picnic tables, park benches, a kids park and community centre nearby.  With its incredible views of the cherry trees with North shore mountains, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite locations (see my pictures of Mount Pleasant Park from 2014)

Visit within the next week.

Photos by Jessica Tremblay

 

 

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