Cherry tree in flower in Mayfield Road 18-04-2015 002

The tree is beautiful! It looks like it's developing leaves at the same time.

I took a couple of photos of it a few days after this one & the transformation is really dramatic! It's in the same street where we live but in a direction I don't go very often. Yet I can easily see the tree from in front of our block of flats. It draws your eye immediately if you look down the street in that direction!

I'll take a look, thanks! :>)

I uploaded a couple more photos of this tree that I took a few days later. In another week most of the flowers will be going over for another year as they seldom last more than 2-3 weeks. Though they are truly spectacular while they last!

It's too bad they bloom for such a short period of time.

I guess I'm lucky because here we have so many flowering trees/shrubs (hundreds or even thousands, I haven't counted) which flower all year. There's so many tropical/subtropical trees/shrubs which flower here during winter.

As I said above this Cherry tree has now finished for this year. :-(( They never last for more than a couple of weeks :-(( Yet while they DO flower they fill your eyes with amazement. Perhaps if we had lots more trees & bushes in flower we might not appreciate them as much. Yet practically daily more trees & shrubs come into flower :-)) yet they also seldom last more than a couple of weeks. :-(( That's the nature of spring flowering trees & bushes though. In the summer we have shrubs that will bloom for several months though few trees.

I guess we're lucky many of the tropical tress/shrubs have a long bloom season. Hong Kong Orchid trees start to flower in mid-Sept through March or early April. Most of the winter-tropical flowering trees have the same bloom time-frame.

Yes, you are lucky in that respect! We have a constant stream once the spring gets under way. Now the great majority of Cherry trees have finished & the Lilacs, Golden Rain (Laburnum), Horse Chestnut & Hawthorn are taking their place. These have a slightly longer flowering period & most will last the majority of May. :-))

I've been to Europe to see those trees bloom (more than a few times), they're very beautiful and really green.

The trees which are flowering here now are: Jacaranda; Michaelia champaca; Tipu (Tipuana tipu); Cassia leptophylla (and many other Cassia species); Spathodea campanulata (African Tulip tree); Bauhinia forficata, galpinii and several other species; Calodendrum capense (Cape Chestnut); Markhamia lutea (Nile tulip tree); Erythrina falcata (Brazilian Coral tree) and Plumeria trees are just starting to flower. These are just a few.

Must be nice to see so many flowering trees! I love it when they flower every spring here! :-))

Yes, it's great to see a lot of flowering trees here all year.

Jacaranda, Tipu and Cassia leptophylla (Gold Madallion tree) trees are extremely plentiful here. They line streets, medians, parks and the house landscape by the millions. Tipu, Jacaranda, Eucalytus ficifolia are very widely planted along the freeways, also.