'Ukon' are in full bloom in Charleston Park at Granville Island. Here is the group of 'Ukon' on on Spruce Street at 6th Avenue, seen from Charleston Park above on 7th Avenue. This photo with the snow on the mountains is for @Willard. 'I forgot all about this 'Ama-no-gawa' at 1231 W. 7th. The flowers were too high up to photograph. This 'Shiro-fugen' on 7th at Alder seems to only get posted just before blooming time.
Three days ago, April 12, the 'Kanzan' grove to the east of the road onto Granville Island had just a few open flowers. Today, I would say they are at peak bloom. This group of sweet cherries look like they have been planted as fruit trees.
Well, I walked the whole length of Creekside Drive. I only found this one 'Shiro-fugen'. My photo of these 'Kanzan' shows the background that's in @Yumi's photo of the row of 'Shiro-fugen'. I found rounded leaf margins on the 'Ito-kukuri' to the left of the stairs up to the park on Creekside Ave at 1st. There is much more avium now than the 'Ito-kukuri'. I guess a few more years and it will be gone. There are so far only a few flowers open.
'Kanzan' on 3rd Avenue east for two blocks from Burrard are in full bloom. A lot of them are low-grafted. But not this one. Here's another 2-tone, in front of what was the Molson building. There are four 'Kanzan' there, all with suckers. You can see the sucker growth at the fence in front of the first photo.
Two days later, the 'Shiro-fugen' posted just above were entering their pink phase, beginning with fluorescent pink from the centre of the flowers. The second photo with snow in the background is for @Willard's collection.
Whitcomb by the Blackmore entrance to VGH (W. 12th & Willow, north side of 12th) is just starting its bloom - in late January!
This is the most ‘Snofozam’ I have seen in one place. There are two trios planted on 12th Ave west of Cambie - blooming now. They are asymmetrical and quirky-looking, and I could not help noticing them as I drove by. Stop the car!!!
Many, many 'Akebono's, in full bloom now: On the northside of 16th Avenue, between Heather and Willow: 15th & Willow: 14th & Willow: ... and two scrawny ones in front of VGH:
In the same neighbourhood as my last post here, there's a very nice 'Shirotae' - my first of the season - at 15th & Heather:
And here's another 'Shirotae', on the south side of 14th Ave., just east of Laurel. The one next to it appears to be a 'Shirotae' as well, but it's hard to tell, as it's further past full bloom than the one I photographed (today).
I was sent to see this group, and I don't know if I found what I posted in 2015. Here is what I saw yesterday: three 'Shiro-fugen' and one young 'Kanzan'. Here is the 'Kanzan'.
All gone. Now it's a bike path. And of the trees at 1st Ave where Creekside Drive becomes Island Park Walk, the two 'Shogetsu' and the 'Ito-kukuri' are fast disappearing. I did not see anything that I thought was 'Shogetsu', just some 'Ito-kukuri' flowers here and there, only on the left side of the steps, and a lot of sweet cherry. Here is a tree that I have previously called 'Shogetsu'. On April 27, I was doubting myself again. 'Shogetsu' flowers should develop ahead of 'Shiro-fugen', which at that point, were already into pink flowers and green leaves. This is a warm neighbourhood, and this tree is close to a building and not shaded by any building across from it. But see the fimbriated petal margins in the photos at https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/fairview.36483/page-6#post-336607. Here's a beaver in False Creek at Island Park Walk. I wanted to post the 'Kanzan' grove at (or across from) Granville Island, part of Sutcliffe Park, but it was already too late when I photographed them on April 27.
Today, May 5, I'm feeling more comfortable about calling this 'Shogetsu'. The flowers are senescing white (they appear more white than these photos show) and they are dropping white. For comparison, here are two 'Shiro-fugen' photos from the West End taken today. Flowers are pink before they appear to be senescing, and they drop pink.
This location was first reported in 2015: I found this confusing, as the number and type of trees isn't adding up to what I reported previously. On the left of the stairs, facing the stairs from the bottom, I only see one cherry, and it appears to me to be 'Ito-kukuri', with very short flower stems, though I called it 'Shogetsu' in 2015. And with a lot of sweet cherry limbs. On the right of the stairs are three cherry trees (and some other stuff). The tree (below) closest to the corner seems to be entirely whatever it was meant to be. There are no remnants of flowers, nor were there flowers when the 'Ito-kukuri' next to it was coming into bloom in 2015. The leaves are definitely ornamental cherry leaves. I don't think I found anything of the scion on the other two trees on this side of the stairs.
I'm just posting a photo of the ex-row of 'Shiro-fugen' on Creekside. There was previously a road and bike path and row of trees. Now there are only the first two, and a row of concrete dividers. That's Creekside Park off-camera on the right.
