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April 30, 2012 at 5:42 pm #603076
JiggersMemberAny place in Seattle were you can see the Sakura tree change it beautiful colors in just a few days? We had two of them in our yard back home in Hawaii and everytime about this time of year is when they go through its transition of beauty.
April 30, 2012 at 9:42 pm #757003
KatherineLParticipantWikipedia says that Sakura is the Japanese flowering cherry. Arthur Lee Jacobson in ‘Trees of Seattle’ says the Japanese call them Sato-zakura and that there are about twenty varieties common in Seattle. I don’t recall their changing colors, however, except to bloom and then quickly fade to green.
He says there are a number of them at the Arboretum, of course. But he pinpoints “Cascade Snow” used as street trees on 42nd SW south of Genesee St on the west side. Also 8 “Cheal’s Weeping Cherry” trees on SW Stevens St, west of Fairmount Ave SW, south side.
April 30, 2012 at 9:42 pm #757004
anonymeParticipantJiggers, there are a number of cultivars of this tree, several of which you can see in the Washington Park Arboretum. The scientific name is “Prunus serrulata” or commonly, flowering Japanese cherry. Here’s a link to the website of Arthur Lee Jacobsen, who authored “Trees of Seattle”. He sometimes has information on specific trees in locations other than Arboreta.
April 30, 2012 at 9:43 pm #757005
anonymeParticipantKatherineL: great minds think alike! You beat me by 5 seconds…!
April 30, 2012 at 10:01 pm #757006
B-squaredParticipantYou might check to see if the little arboretum thing at South Seattle community college doesn’t have some of those.
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