Please tell me all about it, when you do get fruit.
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My Lapins cherry…
A wild serviceberry in the edge of my field.
Here comes the elders…
Gave them a good weeding, some compost, and then a nice layer of wood chips. They are spreading out some … multiplying.
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A volunteer currant that came up in the corner of the garden (I think Ribes sanguineum ?), flowering for the first time:
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Pretty
A bunch of greenhouse avocados are getting very close to starting flowering, but so far only two with actual open flowers.
“Walter Hole”:
and “Joey” (which seems to not be producing pollen at all this year, after being pollen bombs last year):
Some contenders for being next to start flowering include “Jade”:
And “Duke”:
Many are still much further behind. Here’s “Brissago”:
And “Linh”:
Honorable mention, even though it’s a vegetative flush, seedling #169 in the project has leaves that are prettier than any avocado flowers:
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First flowers on one of the goumi seedlings I got from @JohannsGarden a couple years ago! Almost missed them.
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Seeing the closeup of your Goumi,had me going outside and taking a look to see,if my Red Gem had those spots,even on the flowers.Yes,they do.
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Just a floral cherry, but we love it anyway. It always flowers 10-14 days before my fruit cherry. And yes I found a patch of blue sky!
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Kwanzan?
Probably, but I don’t know. This tree was here before I bought the house. I believe it was planted in 1980 when the home was built.
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Looks like Kwanzan to me.
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I wish I could have an Kwanzan cherry in my front yard. The flower petals are edible and used in decorating sweets
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Interesting I have chocolate truffle molds and will be making cheery blossom truffles soon!
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This is so pretty with a HEAVY flower set. Wow. Do you get good fruit from this one too?
The fruit is large, sweet, and freestone. It is extra fuzzy which seems to help with pests. I would rate flavor out of hand a 6 out of 10. However it appears to have excellent frost hardiness and pest resistance.
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Very cool. Have you considered naming it ? 
… would love to try a graft in SoCal next year if you’d be open to sharing it.
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@SoMtHomestead … hate that you are getting so much cold after so much is blooming and setting fruit.
I know how that feels.
Are you located in a hollow bottom ?
I am on a ridge top… and that does help…
My daughters home is like 5 miles from me but she is in a hollow bottom right next to the creek there.
She has had several hard frosts the past 2 or 3 weeks… where I only had the one night of 29-30 degrees.
Right now there is no frosts in my 10 day… but she may get more. Location can be very important with spring frosts. She has much better soil at her hollow bottom location than I do… but i am making out much better on frosts than she is.
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I would love to name it, but I think it needs a couple more years to prove its worth. I can certainly send you some scion but I suspect it has chill requirements from 800 to 1100 hours.
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