Niagara Spring

Gardens and Orchards are awakening with the blossoms of spring.  This Niagara-on-the Lake heritage home is showing its best in spring with its Magnolia blossoms.  And of course, the orchards have started to blossom.  I notice this year that there are light pink, dark pink, bright white, yellowy white all blooming at the same time. There are orchards showing no colour too. I can identify pear trees as they are vertical in growth - pointing straight up.  But other trees seem more difficult to identify.  I wonder if there are any experts in the photo of the day who know the trees well.

Vineland Research Station

I checked out the Vineland Research Station  last week.  There's a nice collection of flowering spring trees, including Paulownia, a warmer climate tree also known as the princess tree and empress tree.  It doesn't look like it will blossom this year, even though it is in the most protected location.  It has huge blossom heads with big flowers so is quite the show in spring.   There are some nice magnolias there, and you can see in the first picture's background the state-of-the-art greenhouses being constructed.  Vineland Research is a research and innovation centre and one of its latest projects is greenhouse technology.  With the construction, there were also some good abstracts on the metal bins and trailers. The same tree from the other direction shows a grove of cherry trees that should be in bloom this week.  More on Vineland Research Station here: http://vinelandresearch.com

Niagara's Spring Magnolias

Hi everyone,

The Magnolia trees are in bud and showing their colour.  Two beautiful Magnolias with beautiful houses are located on historic Yates Street in St. Catharines.  Yates Street was developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s along the banks of Twelve Mile Creek.  There was a spa hotel as an artesian well with metal water was found.  There had been many mills along Twelve Mile Creek and later the Erie Canal.  Shipbuilders were located along the Canal.  As times moved on, the elegant neighbourhood was created with Georgian and Tudor homes.  

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