Yoshino cherries at the Garden entrance (click for wallpaper size).
Cedric Wiens
The shidare zakura or “weeping cherry “.
Michel Hersen
Cedric Wiens
Purple leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera ‘Krauter Vesuvius’)
Cedric Wiens
Color in the Garden
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Sakura in Bloom
Spotted March 3rd, 2010
Several of the Garden’s flowering cherry trees (sakura 桜) are coming into bloom this week.
Cedric Wiens
Spring Is Here
Spotted February 17th, 2010
The weeping cherry, or shidare zakura, at the Garden Pavilion (click for HD wallpaper size).
Cedric Wiens
The first flowering cherry of the year, above the Tea House side gate.
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Stephanie Moss
A cousin to the flowering cherry, the purple leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera ‘Krauter Vesuvius’)
Cedric Wiens
Early Spring?
Spotted February 5th, 2010
Begging to differ with this week’s Groundhog Day verdict, our gardeners are expecting the spring flowering season to arrive early this year.
No cherry blossoms yet—these pale-pink fragrant flowers are of the Dawn Viburnum (click for HD wallpaper size).
Jasmine Blue
A growing hellebore, or Lenten Rose, the Natural Garden.
Jasmine Blue
Skimmia japonica
Jasmine Blue
Pieris japonica
Jasmine Blue
Interesting Ice
Spotted December 11th, 2009
Heavenly Falls at the lower pond
The Stroll Garden’s stream
