I'd love to say that we have 'Kiku-zakura' in production (i.e., own-root production at UBC Botanical Garden), but ours died before we could start...
So a haw, not a pome?
Actually, this mountain ash has been determined to be Sorbus splendens (I believe the new label is in the queue) a close relative of S....
Interesting. The cultivated material we have is definitely A. melanocarpa. I'll have another look at the wild collections (particularly the one...
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...
