'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.
