please empty your brain below
It was a nice idea, but I think for many the C-19 era is more of a personal matter than a public one.

Still Anon | 10.04.23 - 10:33 a.m. | #

Agreed. My dead-straight road used to be lined with plum cherry trees that all blossomed mid-February and for about 3 weeks it was glorious travelling along the length.
Road widening measures saw about 60% of the trees at the peak section being removed and others, including the one in front of my house, have since been felled for safety.

A few new trees have replaced them but they are un-blossoming species, and so the stunning effect has been lost.

Cornish Cockney | 10.04.23 - 10:34 a.m. | #

The New Eltham cherry trees are *very* mature. One recently died and was replaced by a young specimen by Greenwich council. I'm pleased to report that it's a good match for the existing trees, both in colour and blossoming time. Long may it last.
The flower containers around the trees are not council, they're the work of volunteers and local business sponsors.

K. | 10.04.23 - 1:27 p.m. | #

We have rows of cherry trees in our street, but they peak for a very short time and a fine display of blossom can easily be wiped out by a windy day. The really mature trees then drop cherry juice, pips and bird droppings on parked cars for months afterwards, so they're not universally welcome.

ActonMan | 10.04.23 - 2:00 p.m. | #

For a properly unusual (and local) example, take a look at the tree outside the fire station on Bethnal Green Road – it blossoms half pink and half white. Like a tree-shaped coconut ice.

ChrisM | 10.04.23 - 2:35 p.m. | #

I went looking for the blossom garden in July 2021 and came away having failed to find it. But comparing your photos with mine it seems I walked straight through it without realising... In contrast our local council planted 70 cherry trees last year for the jubilee, they put on an excellent display then and an equally good display this year. Maybe they used the wrong type of cherry tree?

davews | 10.04.23 - 4:13 p.m. | #

We're fortunate to have many cherry trees locally and I've also always been fascinated by the mixed blossom white/pink ones

Frank F | 11.04.23 - 7:28 a.m. | #

The dual colour flowering trees happen when the grafted rootstock sends up shoots that aren't cut off, as they should be. There are quite a few in our area where you can see a cluster of shoots round the base, with white flowers, when the top growth is flowering in pink.

I have been to Kew twice, recently.They, of course, have a large enough are to be able both to mass plant a single variety (for example, around the edge of the rose garden there are a lot of young Yoshino cherries, flowering dazzling white if that's what you like) but then along a cherry alley they have various different cherries, planted in pairs, one each side of the path, so you get a bit more impact from each variety when it is flowering time.

Lucy Garden | 11.04.23 - 8:54 a.m. | #

About commemorating Covid. After the Spanish Flu, nobody seems to have wanted to commemorate that either, even though the losses were of a similar scale to those of WW1.
Families remember those lost in battle, but have forgotten those who died from the flu. Maybe it's because dying in a war is a big public event, and dying from a disease is a small (on a world scale) private family matter.

Michael Griffin | 11.04.23 - 12:00 p.m. | #











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