Spring Is Here – Cherry Blossoms

Spring is officially here!  The Cherry Blossom trees have bloomed & the city looks beautiful.  These trees are rare in such a cold climate but Toronto’s High Park has a large amount of them.  In 1959, the Japanese ambassador to Canada presented 2000 Japanese Somei-Yoshino Sakura trees to the citizens of Toronto on behalf of the citizens of Tokyo. The trees were planted in appreciation of Toronto accepting re-located Japanese-Canadians following the Second World War.

Here are a few photos that were taken on April 11th, 2010, just before they bloomed.

A few photos taken one week later on April 18th, 2010, flowers in full bloom.

The University of Toronto has a small row of young Cherry Blossom trees that were in bloom in April 11th, 2010.  Here are a few images.