Spring Color Guided Walk

Saucer Magnolia

Take a self-guided walk to see the spring flowering trees.

On the Arboretum, you can find trees flowering from March to May. The general progression through the season is roughly as follows: 

• Late March: Flowering plums

• Late March, early April: Deciduous magnolias

• Late April: Cherries, redbuds, apples, crabapples, eastern dogwoods, dove tree

• May: Kousa dogwoods, hawthorns

• Late May: Snowbells, yellowoods

Note that warmer, sunny weather can cause early flowering, just as late cold snaps can delay flowering. Also note that yellowwood trees bloom heavily one year and may hardly bloom at all the next.

To find the trees, visit the Live Map produced by the Concordia Tree Team and search for these trees.

Lavalle hawthorn

Golden Raindrops Crabapple

Yellowwood

Kousa dogwood