Spring Color Guided Walk

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:

Tree icons on the interactive Linear Arboretum map are color coded to make it easier to zoom in on the ones that interest you. The pink tree icons are trees that bloom with showy flowers in spring - from March to the end of May.

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