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Yes, definitely 'Shiro-fugen'. What a great group!
Beautiful! But that first image drives me crazy. I can understand that a homeowner or a commercial property might have such a rootstock issue and...
It occurs to me that the single 'Hosokawa-nioi' that was between a pair of Tai-haku' there, right next to one in the photograph (and that died a...
The flowers are yellow (both sexes) in A. amamiense.
Okay. Talk to me in July.
The Japanese hill cherry or yama-zakura is correctly Prunus jamasakura (syn. P. serrulata f. spontanea, P. spontanea, etc.). Like other cherries,...
The first plum in bloom I've seen in New Westminster is a lofty purple-leaf Prunus cerasifera in the 1300 Block of 6th Avenue (north side of the...
A Google Scholar search for "fresh cut grass aroma" brings up hexanal (Cis-3-hexenol) as responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass. I'm...
Probably Cercis chinensis 'Avondale', a compact cultivar out of Avondale, New Zealand. 'Avondale' was the only C. chinensis common in local...
As this is a planting in a City of Vancouver park, it's more likely Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty' (L. fragrantissimum × L. standishii), a...
Looks to me like Billbergia nutans (queen's tears). A very thorough analysis with plenty of images here.
As already alluded to, identification of North American hawthorns can be frustratingly tricky (witness the Flora of North America account of the...
Looking again at the original image at the top of this thread, I'm pretty sure it's Lobelia siphilitica. I'm not sure why I'd think it was the...
Regarding Astilboides vs. Darmera: Astilboides: rhizomatous; leaves not in a rosette, dull green, stiffly hairy on upper surface; red pigments in...
The following from Flora of Japan: Leaves 7- to 13-lobed, the lobes ovate-deltoid, abruptly acute, broader than long = P. tellimoides Leaves 8-...
The leaves are trifoliate (not pinnately compound) and the inflorescences are racemose. No tiny stipular spines, either. More likely a feral...
The Shop at UBC Botanical Garden sold a number of small, own-root cherries this spring. Each was about 1 m tall. The plants were produced in the...
I can't argue with much of what you say, but I'm still left wondering what to call (what I assume are) different Thuja plicata seedlings that are...
I'll amend my comment about 'Green Giant' being "virtually impossible to distinguish from western red cedar" to "difficult for the casual viewer...
Thuja plicata (western red cedar), or more likely the hybrid 'Green Giant' (T. standishii × T. plicata), which is a very common hedge or screening...
