'Accolade' Flowering Cherry

Sakura & blue sky last Friday evening -
Prunus 'Accolade' at Vancouver City Hall:

Graceful, open, spreading deciduous tree with masses of pink, semi-double flowers (12 - 15 petals) in large drooping clusters before the leaves. Deep rose pink buds open to blush-pink. Flowers to 4cm wide.

Prunus 'Accolade' is a hybrid cherry, a cross between Prunus subhirtella and Prunus sargentii introduced from Knap Hill nurseries in England in 1952.

Can grow to 6.0 meters high and wide.

Prunus 'Accolade' has received the RHS Award of Garden Merit (H4) 1993.

Source: Guide to Vancouver Ornamental Cherry trees

Pink petals catching their light

A line in W.S. Merwin's poem, The Furrow, inspired this post's title.

.....as the thin clouds
of that season slipped past gray branches on which the early
      white petals were catching their light......

Trillium ovatum

Sakura (cherry blossoms)

Flowering crabapple (Malus)

Sakura (cherry blossoms)

Clematis montana

Clematis montana

Beyond the balcony: Westie Walk photos

One photo from each l-o-n-g walk with Piper during the past two weeks. Sweet, patient, very bored Piper -- I took many more than one photo per walk.

Photos, top to bottom:

Magnolia (March 13th)
Euphorbia (March 15th)
Cherry blossoms (March 17th)
Magnolia, Magnolia stellata (March 18th)
Cherry plum, Prunus cerasifera (March 19th)
Cherry blossoms (March 21st)
Cherry blossoms (March 23rd)
Bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba' (March 24th)
Magnolia (March 25th)
Magnolia (March 26th)