Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Spring Flowers

Dear Eka Mustikawaty,

This shrub with yellow flowers is called Forsythia. Forsythia is very well known and flowering very early in the spring. Because of winter in Vancouver is not so severe, and it feels spring like weather already, you can see them blooming everywhere. I took this photo today just in my neighbourhood. Spring is more brighter with the presence of yellow flowers of Forsythia that cover the whole tree. The leaves come later just before the flowers fall to the ground. Forsythia can grow as high as 3 m.


This is Flowering Cherry. This tree can grow to 30 m, and typically flowering very early in the spring also. I took this photo a couple of blocks away in front of a Nursing Home. This tree is native to Canada. But the profusely flowering Japanese Cherry tree is more common now in Canadian gardens, because it gives abundance of bright flowers, not too tall and requires smaller space to grow.
I noticed also that there are other plants starting to bloom too: heather is a ground cover with white and purple flowers, camelia is a shrub with yellow and red flowers and some species of rhododendron, Japanese pieris and magnolia with flowers in purple, red and white.