{"id":2604,"date":"2020-03-12T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-388\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:52:50","slug":"uw-cherry-tree-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/uw-cherry-tree-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"UW cherry tree blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I would like to know when most of the beautiful flowering trees will be in bloom on the University of Washington campus this spring? I would like to bring a tour group to see them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typical bloom time for the Yoshino cherry trees (<em>Prunus<\/em> x <em>yedoensis<\/em>) in the Quad is mid- to late-March, but timing is weather-dependent. You can check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECBJeRT-sy4\">UW Cherry Cam<\/a>, which they update each spring: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/video\/campus-webcams\/\">https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/video\/campus-webcams\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uw.edu\/theuwdawgcast\/2023\/04\/03\/campus-cherry-blossoms\/\">article<\/a> shows the stages of flower development and provides additional detail about the factors affecting bloom time. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/08\/cherry-blossoms-2024\/\">another<\/a> article about research into predicting bloom time.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The timing for peak bloom \u2014 meaning 70% of buds have emerged \u2014 varies each year based on weather conditions that the developing buds are exposed to in January, February and March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;&#8216;In order to reach peak bloom, buds need to accumulate a certain number of both cold and warm days, known as \u2018growing degree days,\u2019 said Marlee Theil, a UW graduate student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"taxonomy-keyword has-text-align-right wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/flowering-cherries\/\" rel=\"tag\">Flowering cherries<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/flowering-trees\/\" rel=\"tag\">Flowering trees<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/garden-tours\/\" rel=\"tag\">Garden tours<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/prunus\/\" rel=\"tag\">Prunus<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/university-of-washington\/\" rel=\"tag\">University of Washington<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to know when most of the beautiful flowering trees will be in bloom on the University of Washington campus this spring? I would like to bring a tour group to see them. Typical bloom time for the Yoshino cherry trees (Prunus x yedoensis) in the Quad is mid- to late-March, but timing is weather-dependent. You can check the UW Cherry Cam, which they update each spring: https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/video\/campus-webcams\/ This article shows the stages of flower development and provides&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/uw-cherry-tree-blossoms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UW cherry tree blossoms<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[362,546,189,250,27],"class_list":["post-2604","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-flowering-cherries","keyword-flowering-trees","keyword-garden-tours","keyword-prunus","keyword-university-of-washington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}