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  1. Nadia White Rock

    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    5 mature Shirofugen would be soon in bloom at Earles & Vanness.
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Kanzan on both sides of 27Ave east and west from Nootka St.
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    24 Ave. east from Nootka lined with Kanzan
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    18 Ave east from Nootka St.
    many different mature cherries, some are quite rare.
    Kanzan, several Avium Plena, Takasago.
     

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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Several mature beautiful Takasago at 21Ave east from Nootka St. are still in bloom
     

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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Line of Ukon along 15Ave west from Nootka
     

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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    2 or 3 Shirotae at Lillooet south from 15Ave
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    'Kiku-shidare-zakura' at 15Ave near Lillooet St.
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    10 Shirofugen at Rupert south from E. Broadway just started in bloom
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Kanzan on both sides and divider of Rupert St. south and north from 15Ave.
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Several Kanzan around MacDonalds at Lougheed Hwy near Boundary Rd.
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    Kanzan country. East of Nanaimo on 24th for two blocks.

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    More Kanzan country. East of Nanaimo on 23rd, but with construction.

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    Double row of Kanzan on 12th and Kamloops.

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    Triple row of Kanzan on Rupert at 20th. I like snow, too.
    Photos taken April 27.

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    Everywhere you look, Kanzan.
    This double row on 27th, west of Lillooet.
    And they were in peak bloom April 27.

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    More Kanzan on 28th, at Penticton. Big ones!

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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    @Willard and @Nadia White Rock already posted photos from 27th and Lillooet, and from 24th and Lillooet. Here's a photo from 27th on Lillooet, showing the open view of the row of 'Kanzan' at 24th.
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    And a snowy lions photo from 27th.
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    The 'Shiro-fugen' trees on Earles at Vanness (actually on the corner of Kings) have barely opened yet. I'm surprised they're so slow to open here.
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    I got dropped off today on 29th and Boundary, just a block from Cariboo Park, with three or so each of 'Ukon' and 'Kanzan' trees, not in a mass planting. It's a lovely park.
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    This is the first of any photos from the VCBF 10th Anniversary plantings. 'Snow Goose' and 'Akebono' have finished blooming, and these 'Shiro-fugen' seem reluctant to start, though other 'Shiro-fugen' trees in this neighbourhood are equally late.
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    I would be feeling insulted, as these do not look like great trees to me. The 'Snow Goose' are on Birch Bark Cherry rootstock, which I think looks bizarre. 'Snow Goose' seem widely available grafted low so that the trunk matches the tree. What's wrong with a tree having a matching trunk?
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    The 'Shiro-fugen' are grafted high; the rootstock growth off the trunk is already appearing, and the graft area looks pretty weak - the rootstock diameter is already larger than the scion. I don't understand that dark area on the trunk in the 2nd photo.
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    The 'Akebono' is also high-grafted, with the mismatched size of the trunk and scion apparent already and the branching all from the same place, and the rootstock growth already underway on the trunk.
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    It's one thing to have trees grafted high on city streets so that they branch above the parked cars and passing trucks. But in a park, wouldn't it be nice if the trees looked like real trees?
     
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    Plethora of 'Shiro-fugen' blooming now on E27th between Nanaimo and Penticton.

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    Too bad the swing broke before we got there.
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    Double row of 'Kanzan' on 38th, east of Nanaimo, for one block.

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    'Kanzan' plus 'Akebono' on 40th between Nanaimo and Clarendon. 'Kanzan' on the north, 'Akebono' on the south.

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    'Kanzan' on Brock from Nanaimo to Clarendon.

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    With a young 'Shirofugen' planted 2012.
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    And a young 'Akebono' planted 2010.
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    Laura Blumenthal Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    So, I happened to be in Renfrew-Collingwood today, and this is what I saw: Akebonos everywhere!

    First of all, along 40th Ave. both east and west of Wales, previously posted at #69, from March 18th, 2015:

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    Then a little further north on Wales, an older tree:

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    Then just south of Norquay Park, across the street from the park:

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    Then near the northwest entrance to Norquay Park, at Kingsway and Wales, a new planting of five baby Akebonos along the path that leads into the park:

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    'Shiro-fugen' on E27th between Nanaimo and Penticton are ahead of last year's bloom time. See posting #92 dated April 27, 2017.

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