Prunus serrulata (Japanese flowering cherry)

The term 'Japanese flowering cherry' is complicated. Most of the flowering cherry trees you see are complex cultivars and they don't produce edible fruit because they have been selected, purely on the basis of their 'prettiness', for hundreds of years. On Saturday, I went to the Sakura Days Festival at the Van Dusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver but it was quite crowded and there were simply not enough cherry trees for my liking. However, I found this beautiful, highly-doubled specimen a few blocks away and I was delighted.

Domodossola, Italia, 17 Aprile 2024

Good night 🌟 💫

Source : Facebook

My bouquet of flowers

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fleurs

Tournefeuille, couleurs vertes et violettes de printemps

Tournefeuille, green and violet spring colours

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20

Campanule, from our garden. This is my favorite summer flowers 🤍

+ georges rochegrosse 'le chevalier aux fleurs' (1894)

Masao Yamamoto ~ (unknown title) and AM # 34, Ambrotypes, printed 2023 | src Gallery 51

Spring Fairy / La fée du renouveau

Artist : Guy Ribes (b. 1948)

Erythronium americanum (yellow trout lily, kondo)

On my recent trip to Van Dusen Botanical Garden, I ran into several plantings of this interesting wildflower. I knew it was some kind of lily but luckily they had a stem in a labeled vase next to the entrance.

The yellow trout lily is native to eastern North America but I've never seen one growing on the west coast. It gets its name from the mottled appearance of its leaves which, supposedly, look like the skin of a brook trout. I must admit, I really have to put my imagination on 'high beam' to see the resemblance myself.

Photography by Suzy Hazelwood

Tasse de café

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Lilas