My favorite trail of cherry blossom walk/Carlos Pueblo

My favorite trail of cherry blossom walk/Carlos Pueblo

On the island of East Potomac Park from the Park Police head quarter to

Hains Point is my favorite trail of cherry blossom walk. There is this Chinese

Classical essay, the story of the peach blossom paradise, which affects me

dearly ever since I was a school child. It says that a lost fisherman runs into

to a peach blossom grove with a hundred feet trail and then discovers this

paradise. I myself have discovered this cherry blossom paradise since 2010 trip

to the national capital. Only this part of the trail is more than 2 miles and for

the good part of the other side and tidal Basin trail must be more than 15 miles.

I like it because that not many visitors notice this part of the cherry blossom.

Other than the majority of the bulk of Somei Yoshino cherry, there are 400 plus

Kwanzan cherry and some other minor species in the total park inventory.

 During the cherry blossom festival, we can take a shuttle to visit East Potomac

Park; however, I have walked all my way around the island lately. It is a good spot

to take a picture on the bridge separate East from West Potomac Park with Washington

Memorial as a background. There is an unique tree on the west end of the bridge, I

would say a Shirofugen yet I am not sure and yet I do have many shots. Across the

bridge, it is a small garden of George Mason Memorial with a group of New York

magnolia which are after peak yet still charming. We can see more variety of magnolia

around White House area. This kind of magnolia is different from the kind in Texas we

call it Dixie magnolia, an elegant snow white petals  flower.

There are groves, river bank and inland, on both sides of the street. A few of Kwanzan

cherry trees under the highway bridge on river bank side are ready to blossom. I see one

flower coming out. Two wild cherry with pinky red blossom are on inland side near the

parking lot. We call such as wild cherry yet in D.C. they call it the red bud, the flower size

is smaller than flower cherry in general yet very attractive to visitors. There is a tree with

some dry cherries on the branches which I can gather for memory. Usually I forget how old

I am and when I get back to Texas, I would through them away because it takes unknown

time to get the seed to grow up to a flowering tree plus Houston is too warm for cherry

blossom .

According to the map, there are several kinds of flowering cherry trees here on the grove,

Sargent, Weeping, Akebono, Afterglow, Yoshino, Kwanzan, Takesimensis etc. I take all the

pictures to wait until one day I can ask some one’s help to identify each one individually.

One big portion of the trail consists of 400 plus Kwanzan cherry which are ready to bloom.