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.
