Growing, Propagation, Identification, Appreciation and more! Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:24:23 +0000 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:24:23 +0000 UBC Botanical Garden Forums https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/ornamental-cherries.305/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:20:43 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-in-seattle-wa.90456/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-in-seattle-wa.90456/ invalid@example.com (Willard) Willard

Here is a website for a live webcam of the Quad at University of Washington, Seattle.
Watch the 'Somei-yoshino' in real time.
Edited by wcutler - look farther down in this thread for the current year's link.]]> 33 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:27:56 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/springtime.105406/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/springtime.105406/ invalid@example.com (AlainK) AlainK I have this root cutting of Prunus 'Accolade' (3-4 yers old) that is flowering. Though it usually flowers early,( beginning of February), I've never seen that in December before!

View attachment 261016 View attachment 261017]]> 1 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:38:25 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/obvious-graft-mis-match-such-a-compassionate-description.105365/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/obvious-graft-mis-match-such-a-compassionate-description.105365/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler This cherry tree in a cemetery in New Jersey is described in a Facebook posting as almost representing one of the wonders of the world. The photo and description were posted by Karl Gercens, Conservatory Manager at Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia....

Obvious graft mis-match - such a compassionate description]]> Tue, 13 May 2025 17:42:12 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/a-world-of-cherry-blossoms.97767/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/a-world-of-cherry-blossoms.97767/ invalid@example.com (Acerholic) Acerholic @wcutler.
If anybody in England is on this forum with Cherry tree Spring photos then please add.

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Edited by wcutler: if the Maples people can post photos in a single thread from all around the world, I think the Cherry fans can too, and some have started to do that, in a thread that I want to keep on its original track, so I have renamed this...

A world of cherry blossoms]]> 146 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:37:09 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/magical-two-tone-trees.102176/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/magical-two-tone-trees.102176/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler Prunus avium rootstock. The ones with 'Kanzan' scions are the most noticeable, producing obviously two-toned trees. A new scout is about to post a fine example, and now I'm surprised to find that I can't point her to a thread where I have collected these. Let's see what I can dig up. [Edited ]- I've posted several, but did not find the one I actually...

Magical two-tone trees]]> 54 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:56:11 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/mazzard-cherry-tree-root-system-invasive.105094/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/mazzard-cherry-tree-root-system-invasive.105094/ invalid@example.com (MomijiCanuck) MomijiCanuck
Does anyone know if Mazzard cherry tree have invasive root system ?

Does it have spreading roots above ground ?
Is it safe to be planted next to a driveway?
I uploaded an image of an example.

Thanks]]> 15 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:22:23 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/late-season-double-white.100244/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/late-season-double-white.100244/ invalid@example.com (Janice Lin) Janice Lin
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Late Season Double-white]]> 19 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:30:52 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/late-season-dark-pink-buds-open-to-double-white-flowers-short-stems.85675/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/late-season-dark-pink-buds-open-to-double-white-flowers-short-stems.85675/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler posted in Fairview, is another tree I've managed to miss all this time, probably because so much of it is avium, and in front of it is an all-avium tree, though it's not clear what it started as. I've named this 'Ito-kukuri', but would like confirmation, and besides, I have some trouble with this ID. We have that...

Late season, dark pink buds open to double white flowers, short stems]]> 1 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:54:43 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/somei-yoshino-compare-to-akebono-trying-this-again.103226/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/somei-yoshino-compare-to-akebono-trying-this-again.103226/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler
I am using photos that have been posted here and there - the photographer names are part...

'Somei-yoshino' compare to 'Akebono', trying this again]]> 3 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:48:47 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-that-look-like-real-trees.90838/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-that-look-like-real-trees.90838/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler Cherries that look like real trees

We're not doing much to promote the idea that ornamental cherries can be good-looking trees. Most of what gets posted on our forums are fat poles with a bunch of skinny limbs affixed at the graft point, with or without huge cankers to emphasize the graft.

I've been thinking we could use a collection of photos of good-looking trees, to create some awareness of what real trees look like. These photos have all been posted in the Neighbourhood Blogs,...

Cherries that look like real trees]]> 36 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:04:14 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-in-hawaii.87902/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/cherries-in-hawaii.87902/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler
Cherries in Hawai'i]]> 17 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:30:02 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/kojo-no-mai-help.104645/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/kojo-no-mai-help.104645/ invalid@example.com (Sue Crewdson) Sue Crewdson 9 Fri, 17 May 2024 17:46:55 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/what-variety-is-this-cherry.104433/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/what-variety-is-this-cherry.104433/ invalid@example.com (Cherry373) Cherry373 View attachment 254187
First time here don’t know if I’m posting right…
So I grafted a scion from a “yoshino” tree which I’m 100% sure is yoshino on to this prunus avium lapins, but when the graft took and it flowered, it seems to be behaving and looking different.]]> 5 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:59:54 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/kanzan-brown-rot-question.104272/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/kanzan-brown-rot-question.104272/ invalid@example.com (Keith Darnell) Keith Darnell
On one of the infected trees, it killed about 75% of the limbs and the remaining 25% have budded and are blooming. On the other, it killed all of the limbs and there are...

Kanzan Brown Rot Question]]> Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:54:59 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/variation-in-flower-appearance-can-be-confusing.104268/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/variation-in-flower-appearance-can-be-confusing.104268/ invalid@example.com (Anne Eng) Anne Eng @wcutler here editing Anne Eng's posting originally posted at https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/shaughnessy.36222/page-12#post-442499. I will comment in a separate posting below.

VanDusen's 'Ukon' tree on the Autumn Stroll/Gate 6 area, is not at full bloom on April 4, 2024. 'Ukon' actually looks better as it ages; its component red, green and off-white colours make for interesting shadings.

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Variation in flower appearance can be confusing]]> 1 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:15:16 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/asagi-kizakura-gyoiko-and-ukon-greenish-white-doubles-bronze-leaves-mid-season.37795/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/asagi-kizakura-gyoiko-and-ukon-greenish-white-doubles-bronze-leaves-mid-season.37795/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler Edited by wcutler April 24: this nice blossom is probably not Ukon - see Douglas's reply and photos below. You're invited to name this one.]]> 40 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:20:31 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/a-tree-near-fremlin-and-43rd-mid-season-single-bronze-leaves.82425/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/a-tree-near-fremlin-and-43rd-mid-season-single-bronze-leaves.82425/ invalid@example.com (bleung) bleung
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I've come to be suspicious that maybe there is something wrong with it, because it seems very "leggy" with a great deal of bare branches and seemingly dead twigs and with much of the blossoms and growth very much near the far tips of the tree.





I dunno is there...

Bare branches "leggy" cherry tree?]]> 1 Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:33:52 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/problem-with-my-cherry-blossom-tree.103509/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/problem-with-my-cherry-blossom-tree.103509/ invalid@example.com (SaraSNR) SaraSNR
I have a cherry blossom variant tree. It used to flower properly till bout 2 years back. Last year, the tree had leaves before it started flowers. I also noticed white deposits on the trunk and leaves (pic attached) and leaves are also strangely garbled (pic below)

would anyone be able to help me with this - I had fed the tree organic fertilizer when I fertilize the rest of my garden plants but nothing beyond that. Any clue ?]]> 9 Mon, 08 May 2023 07:36:46 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/fasciated-akebono-or-some-other-prunus-yedoensis.103256/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/fasciated-akebono-or-some-other-prunus-yedoensis.103256/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/west-end-stanley-park.35159/page-6#post-248323

i was surprised to see one tree with a lot of flowers looking pretty good, and not only that, they're large, to 5cm. With lots of petals, not just a few...

Fasciated 'Akebono', or some other Prunus yedoensis?]]> 2 Wed, 03 May 2023 06:30:36 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/what-fuzzy-rootstock-on-these-shiro-fugen-cherries.103276/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/what-fuzzy-rootstock-on-these-shiro-fugen-cherries.103276/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler Prunus avium, except that I came across a discussion recently in which I recall something about P. avium not being hairy and the hairs on the tree in question indicated that it would be P. x pugetensis. Would that hybrid be used as a rootstock now? These leaves felt a little fuzzy and it turned out they are very hairy and fuzzy....

What fuzzy rootstock on these 'Shiro-fugen' cherries]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:40:12 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/seeking-fukubana-in-victoria-finding-accolade.102037/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/seeking-fukubana-in-victoria-finding-accolade.102037/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler @eteinindia asked in the thread at Does anyone know the ornamental Cherry named Fukubana in Vancouver or in North America? whether anyone knows of the cultivar 'Fukubana' in North America. @Ron B posted in that thread a link to Arthur Lee Jacobson's 2001 article on Prunus in Victoria:...

Seeking 'Fukubana' in Victoria, finding 'Accolade'?]]> 3 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:27:47 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/fudan-zakura-everblooming-cherry.96783/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/fudan-zakura-everblooming-cherry.96783/ invalid@example.com (pmurphy) pmurphy
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This tree will flower sporadically from about November until April, with the bulk of the blossoms appearing in March and April]]> 2 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:04:21 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/unknown-sargentii-hybrid-was-syodoi-mid-season-single-white-double-serrated.61419/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/unknown-sargentii-hybrid-was-syodoi-mid-season-single-white-double-serrated.61419/ invalid@example.com (Douglas Justice) Douglas Justice [Edited by wcutler 2011aug3: comments removed no longer relevant after thread reorganization]

With respect to P. serrulata var. spontanea, I could be convinced that many of the unknowns in East Van (500-600 blk E 27, 800 blk E 26, 1100-1200 blk E 13, etc.) are this cherry. I'd like to see whether the leaf back is whitish (which would be a good indicator). The aforementioned are for sure not P. sargentii, as the inflorescences are corymbose, not umbellate—warmer...

Unknown sargentii hybrid, was Syodoi - mid-season, single-white, double-serrated]]> 48 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 06:16:25 +0000 https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/first-international-cherry-blossom-prediction-competition.102057/ https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/first-international-cherry-blossom-prediction-competition.102057/ invalid@example.com (wcutler) wcutler First International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition ended on February 28, 2022. Students, researchers, and citizen scientists competed to predict the peak bloom date of cherry trees at four locations around the world: Washington D.C., USA; Kyoto, Japan; Vancouver, Canada; and Liestal-Weideli, Switzerland. Vancouver selected for its location the 'Akebono' trees in Maple Grove Park, at the corner of SW Marine Drive and Yew...

First International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition]]> 9