Back To QE on Thursday. This is the Shirofugen on the right side or South side. Youngish tree the reddish leaves are now turning green, slowly, and the once white flowers are turning pink. No flowers on the ground yet. Probably because it has gotten a bit cooler??
The white flowering tree on the left or north side. Shogetsu? or Ichiyo? The petals are very frilly so more like Shogetsu....but the petioles are not really super long. The green phylloid centre is sometimes single, but not always.......No petals or intact flowers on the ground on Thursday. Last visit I was thinking they looked a lot like the Ichiyo at VD, but this week.....?
Kiku-zakura. Coming out into blossom. No sign of the warblers....but it was such a rainy day there were not a lot of birds out.....
It doesn't look like it's going to be there long enough to worry about, but for the record, the last photo clinches it for me as 'Shogetsu'. I think petioles are shorter with colder weather.
Those 'Kiku-zakura' trees are in full bloom now, or a little past. 'Shogetsu' in this area have been posted every year in this thread since 2020, and before that in 2014 and 2015. Most of the photos have been excellent. Nobody has called any trees in this area 'Ichiyo'. I can't tell which is the exact tree you've posted, @Lisa L, but the trees that still have flowers in the area north of the 33rd entrance are 'Shiro-fugen' and 'Shogetsu', alternating in these photos, 'Shogetsu' aging to white with brown edges. These are 'Shiro-fugen'. These are 'Shogetsu'. There is a grove of six young 'Shiro-fugen' to the south of the 33rd entrance, next to Kersland St. This is the only one that is low grafted. There used to be three 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' either on the east side of Kersland or along the drive from the 33rd parking arrea to the parking farther south. They were never destined to live more than five years, with the avium rootstock taking over right from the get-go, and they are are now gone. Since I never could remember which drive they were next to, I'm not sure if they were replaced by the 'Shiro-fugen' above or the five 'Kanzan' below, which are south of the parking area.
Accolade in bloom at Prince Edward and 18th SW corner. Blooming its heart out last week on our walk to Yoga!
[E30th between Sophia and John] ‘Accolade’ One of the two ‘Accolade’ on this block seems to be in full bloom, while the other one across the street is already past its peak, with no buds left.
On John Street, just north of 28th, there are these two trees in full bloom - a weeping cherry 'Beni shidare' and an 'Akebono" cultivar.
'Pandora' is in full bloom, at its secluded cul-de-sac on the south side of E. 27, west of Quebec (best to access E. 27 from Main St. west). Easy to see the pinched-neck look of its flowers at March 22, 2026.
Good idea to include that - those slightly curvy triangular sepals would rule out an ID of most other single white flowers, and the absence of hairs on the pedicels distinguishes it from 'Akebono' and 'Somei-yoshino'. I like that tree, used to go by there a lot, but not at all any more.
The five Prunus incisa, 'Little Twist' trees do their best to liven up the front entrance of their building block, but since Prunus incisa is an alpine native on the slopes of Mount Fuji, it's just as well that cultivar 'Little Twist' maintains a modest demeanour when next to a giant structure. Blossoms are tiny and high up on "twisty" twigs and branches. In bloom on the east side of Yukon Street, just south of W. King Edward, at March 25, 2026.
[St. George, south of 28th] A family of 'Akebono' trees, with two little ones between mom and dad (plus a couple more relatives). :)
The two young 'Rancho' trees in the playground area of Riley Park (Ontario and E. 32) are in full bloom at March 28, 2026. The buds are very sticky, a feature of Prunus sargentii cultivars.
The two trees of 'Umineko' are in full bloom in the playground area of Riley Park (Ontario/E32) at March 28, 2026.
Anne's post inspired me to post the 'Umineko' street in full bloom as of today - St. George at 31st Ave., across from the cemetery.
The Sargent hybrid trees line both sides of E. 27 (from Fraser west to St. George). Several have passed peak bloom, are shedding and showing red eye at April 2, 2026. It has taken more than ten years, but finally! the Sargent reveals what "boat-shaped" sepals look like—especially visible on the buds?. The two photos below also show the umbel formation of the inflorescence (flowers all rising from the same place) rather than a corymb (flowers rising at different points along a stem (peduncle, see 'Shirotae'). Obviously here, the Sargent has umbels of two flowers.
The Good Friday crowds were out under the mature 'Akebono' trees by the W. 33rd and Cambie entrance of Queen Elizabeth Park. In full bloom at April 2, 2026 for the selfies and non-selfie picture-taking.
Of course the crowds parking their vehicles were missing the O-yama-zakura (the Big Mountain Cherry, Prunus sargentii) in the W. 33rd parking lot of Queen Elizabeth Park. Because of its cold hardiness, Prunus sargentii (and not 'Somei-yoshino') is the cherry tree used in Hokkaido for the cherry front blooming reports (sakura zensen). Note the 2-3 flower umbels, the funnel-shape calyces, the red emerging leaves, and so, the similarities below to: a) Victoria Drive's 'Rancho' (Prunus sargentii 'Rancho') and b) the Sargent Hybrid on E. 27. Not surprising, as both are its cultivar offspring.
