Kensington-Cedar Cottage

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  1. mweaver

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    Trout Lake - Victoria Dr. and East 16th

    A fine group of 3 large trees (Akebono?) on Victoria Dr. facing Trout Lake Park.
     

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    It's only One, but the Big White, Tai Haku, dominates its corner and its house at Fleming and E. 39. April 19, 2009.
     

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    A Shirotae in bloom at the east side of the school annex in Grey's Park - at about 32nd and Windsor:

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    An emerging, very young Kanzan (as opposed to the very old Kanzans in the neighbourhood, which have not emerged yet), at the southeast corner of 30th & Windsor (the block with the young Akebonos):

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    And my neighbour's espaliated Avium, behind the house at 996 Ringwood (@ Windsor):

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    Laura 3:)
     
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    Two Ukons in bloom April 23, 2009 on the north side of Kensington Community Centre, Dumfries and E. 35.
     

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    Three Shirotae in bloom April 23, 2009 on the east side of Kensington Community Centre, main entrance at Dumfries and E. 35. Very fragrant!
     

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    Although this grove of trees on the north side of E. 10, east of Lakewood, in the yard of Laura Secord Elementary, has finished blooming on April 23, 2009, there are enough blossoms left to tentatively identify them as Umineko.
     

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    In Brewer's Park, Victoria Drive and E. 26 on April 24, 2009: Tai Haku in full bloom; Ukons just opening, Kanzans and Shirofugen still in bud.
     

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    Walking south on St. Catherine's Street from Kingsway to 29th Ave., I was treated to the following:

    Kanzans, just beginning to bloom, from 22nd to 23rd:

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    A huge Avium at 23rd:

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    Older Kanzans, from 27th to 28th:

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    Another huge Avium, at 28th:

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    One of many beautiful Kanzan-scapes - looking North from 32nd & Dumfries:

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    And this block, which may be my favourite for this neighbourhood, discovered by Anne Eng last year, 29th Ave. just East of Knight Street, with Kanzans on one side of the street and Ukons on the other:

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    This Shirotae and the (dead) cherry next to it have been removed. Nothing but two big sand circles on April 29, 2009.
     
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    My God! Why???
     
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    Cherries at Trout Lake, E. 15 and Victoria Drive, on May 1, 2009. Kanzan, Shirofugen and Avium.
     

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    In bloom May 3, 2009 at Brewer's Park, Victoria and E. 26: Kanzans, Shirofugens and Ukons.
     

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    Shirofugen - Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Victoria & E 26th in Brewers Park

    So nice to see such a beautiful cultivar in full bloom just as most of the others are coming to an end. There are three Shirofugens at the edge of this park.
     

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    Re: Shirofugen - Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Victoria & E 26th, in Brewers Park

    Here's the map for the festival favourite Prunus Sato-zakura Group 'Shiro-fugen'.
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    This Shirofugen at the southeast corner of Windsor and E. 31 has a monster right arm that's more than twice the length of its trunk. Reaching out to grab cars in the late afternoon sun on May 8, 2009.
     

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    Re: Kensington/Cedar Cottage

    Kanzans run for two blocks north of 33rd on Commercial. These photos are looking up and down from 32nd.
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    The next block over, on Beatrice, there are two nice Shirofugens in front of the Church on 32nd, and Kanzans again running for (at least) two blocks north of 33rd. Again, looking north and south from 32nd.
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    First posting 2010

    Two Accolades starting their bloom on February 5, 2010, in front of apartment building on the north side of East Broadway, just east of Clark/Knight.
     

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    Good-looking Accolade at full bloom in its private yard on the west side of Nanaimo, north of Kingsway, February 21, 2010.
     

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    The Pandora in the churchyard at the southeast corner of Victoria Drive and E 23 Avenue is in bloom on February 25, 2010, more than a month earlier than last year (April 8, 2009).
     

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    Yoshino in bloom NW corner E. 12 Avenue and Woodland (l block east of Knight) March 4, 2010.
     

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    Not 'Akebono'? The third photo seems to show staminodes in a blossom at the bottom right, and there's what looks like a clear one in the last photo.
     
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    Thanks for the pics and info.
     
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    Yes, it is an Akebono in bloom on the north side of E. 12, halfway between Clark Drive (Knight changes name at this point) and Woodland. Two days after the previous posting, fallen blossoms show the extra petals.
     

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    Healthy Pendula Rosea in bloom on SW corner Vanness Avenue and Nanaimo Street March 4, 2010.
     

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