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Tree calendar feeds

Subscribe once, and your phone or laptop quietly reminds you every spring when the cherries are blooming, every June when the lindens go fragrant, every October when the sugar maples turn. Compatible with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, Fantastical, and anything else that speaks the iCalendar standard.

How to subscribe โ€” Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook

Apple Calendar (Mac, iPhone, iPad): click any "Subscribe" button below. The OS will offer to add the feed; tap "Subscribe" again to confirm. Updates automatically.

Google Calendar: Apple's webcal:// link doesn't work directly โ€” instead, click "Copy URL" below, then in Google Calendar go to Other calendars โ†’ + โ†’ From URL and paste it. Wait up to 24 hours for the first refresh.

Outlook (web or desktop): click "Copy URL", then in Outlook Add Calendar โ†’ Subscribe from web.

Anything else: the feeds are plain .ics files โ€” every modern calendar app can read them.

All bloom windows are estimates of typical Toronto phenology. Actual bloom shifts a week or so each direction depending on weather. Set yourself a reminder a few days early.

Curated feeds

๐ŸŒธ Toronto cherry blossoms

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Every cherry, plum, magnolia, redbud, crabapple, and serviceberry on Toronto's planting list โ€” the full late-April-into-May sequence.

12 events ยท April 5 โ€“ May 15 ยท yearly recurring

๐ŸŒผ Showy spring blooms

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Magnolia, redbud, catalpa, horsechestnut, buckeye, and the rest โ€” every species the City flagged for visually-arresting bloom.

19 events ยท April โ€“ June ยท yearly recurring

๐ŸŒฟ Fragrant trees

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The week to walk under a linden in June. Plus basswood, black locust, yellowwood, Japanese tree lilac โ€” every species whose flowers carry a recognizable scent.

5 events ยท late May โ€“ early July ยท yearly recurring

๐Ÿ Toronto fall colour

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Sugar maple, red maple, ginkgo, oak, beech, katsura โ€” every species the City lists as exceptional fall colour. Peak windows are tight; this calendar gets you out the door.

20 events ยท September โ€“ November ยท yearly recurring

Comprehensive feeds

๐ŸŒธ All bloom windows

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Every flowering species on Toronto's street-tree list, including the inconspicuous and not-conventionally-pretty ones (honey locust's tiny green flowers, oak catkins). For completists.

28 events ยท April โ€“ July ยท yearly recurring

๐ŸŒณ Everything (blooms + fall)

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The maximalist option. Every bloom window and every fall-colour window for every species on the calendar. Your phone will remind you about a tree about every other week, year-round.

79 events ยท January โ€“ December ยท yearly recurring

Want something more specific? Browse the full year-at-a-glance calendar for individual species. Want one of these as a static page rather than a subscription? The blog has the seasonal posts.

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