Richmond

Autumnalis is still doing well. It must have lasted more than two months already. Amazing! You can see them in 7151 Moffatt road, the Venturi Park Court.

Dingren & Martin

 

two Accolate cherry trees, one small and one large, are beginning to bloom on the intersection of Granville and Gilbert, southwest kitty corner from the fire station.

Dingren & Martin

 

Twelve Accolades, ten in front of Yaohan Center and two in front of BMO are blooming now.

Dingren & Martin

 

We "discovered" nine beautiful Pandora cherry trees on 8655 Jones Road, Richmond. The flowers are in full bloom--probably have just peaked. Lots of bees busy working, producing a rather audible hum.

 

There is one white single pendulous cherry tree on the front yard of 7617 Acheson Street, Richmond. Can it be a Sendai-shidare?


Dingren & Martin

 

There are five Birch Bark Cherry trees on the front of 8291 General Currie Road, Richmond. They are all fully grown.


Dingren & Martin

 

About 12 Whitcombs fencing the Alderwood Place at 8705 General Currie Road. You can clearly see them blooming from the fire lane of neighborhood.

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/PPxd

Dingren & Martin

 

It's too early for 'Sendai-shidare', and it doesn't have the long thin sepals of that cultivar. But I can't tell you what it is.

 

Three Somei-yoshino are blooming in Richmond. One is on the Westminster Hwy in front of the Bay, the other two are on the dividing island of Minoru Blvd, in front of west gate of Richmond Center. Both are very close to the intersection of Westminster hwy and Minoru Blvd.

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/hoFn


Dingren & Martin, Cherry Scouts

 

Spire

There are five spires in Livingston Place (From Camstock turn right to Livingston Place, at the straight end turn left) and are blooming now on both side of the road (3 on the right and 2 left). A little fragrant.

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/ez54

 

An "Accolade Grove"
There are 18 blooming Accolades inside Granville Park, 6833 Livingstone Place, Richmond (From Gilbert turn right into Comstock and then another right onto Livingston Place). Apparently. the recent warm weather has pushed them to quickly peak. It is awesome to walk in the courtyard to see the flowering trees "reveal" themselves one by one. Of the eighteen trees, four largest ones were just inside the fence facing the Livingstone Place. Additionally, there are six Accolade trees around the community, two on Gilbert which we reported previously, and two on Comstock and Livingstone Place respectively.

Map link:
http://goo.gl/maps/27tf

 

Accolade in Minoru Park has peaked. The rich pink flowers look so beautiful against the fresh willow greens!

 

Somei-yoshino in Minoru Park!
There is a somei-yoshino in Minoru Park by the little path leading towards Minoru Chapel. It is about 80% open, similar to the ones near Richmond Center which we reported yesterday.

 

Yae-Beni-shidare
There are two Yae-Beni-shidare near Minoru Chapel, Minoru Park. The first flowers has just opened up. Give another week or so, they would be perfect for viewing.

 

Akebono' s Time has come--finally!
After much waiting, we finally see the flowers of Akebono coming out fast! Today, we saw the flowers on the parking lots of the Track field, senior center and on 7500 Granville have begun to open. In a few days, there should be a sea of Akebono flowers.

 

I think it might be snow fountain cherry. It reminds me that I took one photo of this in Van Dusen Garden last year.

Reference
http://www.galbraithsinc.com/view_plant.asp?plant_id=43

 

I think it's Snow Fountains too (that's the trademark name - 'Snofozam' is the cultivar name), but I don't have a very good idea of what distinguishes that, except for white and weeping.

Thanks for the posting, though. I also had no data on which to base the blooming date on the festival map, and I think I was way late. I've moved them all up* to show as starting to bloom April 1 (except for in Richmond, which is clearly in the deep south as far as blooming times are running). The * means I've theoretically moved them up - there's only one on the map so far.

 

Spire at Sandman Hotel
Two Spire cherry trees are in full bloom in front of Sandman Hotel on Bridgeport Road. (Traveloge is on the other side of the street.) They are "mixed" in a group of (presumably) Amanogawa which have no flower showing as yet.

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/Ln0n

 

27 Akebono trees blooming ...
We counted 27 Akebono cherry trees in the parking area of a shopping mall on Bridgeport Road. (Pier 1 Import, Michaels, Tim Horton are some familiar names there.)

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/P053

 

Wow. From those photos, you'd almost think 'Spire' was a nice-looking tree.

 

Akebono at School Board, Blundell Road
3 old akebono trees and 7 young others are blooming at School Board Richmond, Blundell Road

Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/lRWb

 

Whitcomb & Accolade

Three Whitcombs and one Accolade are growing along Chatham St at the Bus Station near 2nd Ave. They are almost over now.

Mape Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/R7s5

 

Akebono on No.1 Road

30 Akebonos are blooming now. Driving by to enjoy this beautiful scenery.


Map Link:
http://goo.gl/maps/KCAO

 

Shirotae
Shirotae starts to boom in Dorchester Circle (7291 Moffatt Road) as shown. Also, one in front of the Chapel in Minoru Park, one facing the south gate of Ebay and those in the parking lot along Ebay Store.

 

Akebono

Wow, Akebono has peaked in Richmond as in Minoru Park, Aquatic Center and Caring Center.