Fall is when trees show their best colours!

Most of the time we take the trees in our garden for granted. We enjoy the shade and the privacy they provide. Fall is when many of those trees show their best colours. The range of red and orange colours seems limitless. If you are looking around your yard and wondering where you can add a bit of colour look up and see if you have space for one of these trees.

Some of the best trees for fall colour include the Maples, both Japanese and European types. Even the green leaf varieties turn to beautiful yellow, orange and red tones. Other great choices include the Katsura Tree (Cercidiphyllum japonica), Sourwood (Oxydendron), and the Forest Pansy (Cercis).

The Magnolias are Bursting into Bloom!

It must be April becasue the Magnolias are bursting into bloom and covering our streets with beautiful flower petals. There is nothing quite like the blooms of Magnolia trees and shrubs. The blooms emerge before they produce leaves allowing us to see all of the beautiful blooms that can cover the entire tree. Flowering can begin in late March and bloom through April. The latest blooming varieties are the Grandiflora or Evergreen Magnolia. These varieties bloom in May and June with large white fragrant flowers.

One of the most popular varieties is the Magnolia stellata or Star Magnolia. These small trees (or large shrubs) make an excellent focal point in a garden bed. In the psring they are covered with large white flowers that look like a star exploding in the sky.

Other varieties that you can choose from include:

• Magnolia ‘Alexandria’
• Magnolia ‘Betty’
• Magnolia ‘Blood Moon’
• Magnolia ‘Butterflies’
• Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’
• Magnolia ‘Coates’
• Magnolia ‘Daybreak’
• Magnolia ‘Donna’
• Magnolia ‘Galaxy’
• Magnolia ‘Kobus’
• Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’
• Magnolia ‘Merril’
• Magnolia ‘Sieboldii’
• Magnolia ‘Sunburst’
• Magnolia ‘Sunsation’
• Magnolia ‘Sunsprite’
• Magnolia ‘Susan’
• Magnolia ‘Vulcan’
• Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’
• Magnolia denduata
• Magnolia grandiflora ‘Brackens Brown Beauty’
• Magnolia grandiflora ‘Edith Bogue’
• Magnolia grandiflora ‘Little Gem’
• Magnolia stellata
• Magnolia stellata ‘Jane Platt’
• Magnolia stellata ‘Royal Star’

The Flowering Cherries are Blooming!

There is no surer sign of spring than when the flowering cherry trees begin to bloom. There will be thousands of trees in bloom over the next month. The first to bloom are usually the Flowering Plums including ‘Pissardi Nigra’ and ‘Bliriana’. The rest will bloom over 6 to 8 weeks.

To celebrate the flowering cherries as they come into bloom The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival runs from March 26th to April 22nd. For more information about the varieties you might find in bloom throughout greater Vancouver visit the Cherry Blossom Festival website here. At David Hunters we have many of these varieties trees to choose from including:

• Flowering Plum ‘Pissardi Nigra’- pink flowers
• Flowering Plum ‘Blireriana’ – pink flowers
• Flowering Cherry ‘Kiku Shidare’ – double pink
• Flowering Cherry ‘Kanzan’ (aka Kwanzan)- double pink
• Flowering Cherry ‘Shirofugen’ – white
• Flowering Cherry subhirtella ‘Pendula’ – weeping form, pink flowers
• Flowering Cherry ‘Whitcombi’ – single pink

May Flowering Trees

May brings many trees into bloom. BC’s provincial flower, the Dogwood, provide the most spectacular show during the early part of the month. There are many beautiful varieties of Dogwood that bloom including:

• Cornus florida ‘Rubra’ – Pink Flowering Dogwood
• Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’ – Satomi Dogwood
• Cornus kousa chinensis – Korean Dogwood
• Cornus nuttallii ‘Eddi’s White Wonder’ Dogwood

You can find a great selection of these varieties in our Nursery.

April Trees in Bloom

April is the time when the tree start to bloom. The two most popular types of trees to come into bloom are flowering Cherries and Magnolias. Cherries can have single or double flowers in white r pink. Magnolias come in similar colours as well as yellow and some that are almost red.

Cornus Nutalli Eddis White Wonder