(aka Margot, Nanoose Bay) From 1964 to 1968, I spent hours (5/7) admiring pink-flowering trees as I drove (in my Morris Oxford) along 41st Avenue and Marine Drive to UBC . . . the trees, imposing hedges, gardens and lovely houses too. For quite a long time, I preferred the dark pink flowers but eventually came to love the light pink ones better. I didn’t then, and don’t now, care what their names were. Just enjoying their ethereal beauty was enough to charge my spirit for the day.
That route would go through the neighbourhoods of Kerrisdale | UBC Botanical Garden Forums and Dunbar-Southlands | UBC Botanical Garden Forums. You can check out 160 to 200 postings of cherries in those neighbourhoods by clicking on those links. I know you said you don't care what their names are, but in those threads, you can find photos of the dark pink flowers by searching for Kanzan; the most common of the light pink ones are Akebono.
