🔍 Lens · Magnolia, cherry, plum, crabapple, redbud, serviceberry, horsechestnut, lilac, catalpa, tulip tree

Spring bloomers — the showy April-to-June canopy

93,743 trees match this lens — 13.6% of Toronto's catalogued street-tree inventory.

Most Toronto street trees flower so quietly nobody notices. This lens shows the ones that don't: the genera flagged for showy spring bloom on the City's planting list. In sequence, between roughly April 5 and June 15, these species turn whole blocks pink, white, magenta, or chartreuse for two weeks at a time.

Top species in this lens

Notable specimens

A few of the largest matching trees, with permalinks to view each one on the map.

• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  187 cm DBH · 179 YONGE BLVD · view → · Bedford Park-Nortown
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  180 cm DBH · 770 BRIAR HILL AVE · view → · Forest Hill North
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  175 cm DBH · 35 HEARST CRCL · view → · Brookhaven-Amesbury
• Lilac Syringa
  175 cm DBH · 80 ANTHIA DR · view → · Humber Summit
• Japanese Lilac Syringa reticulata
  158 cm DBH · 10 SANDBOURNE CRES · view → · Don Valley Village
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  156 cm DBH · 332 JOICEY BLVD · view → · Bedford Park-Nortown
• Choke Cherry Prunus virginiana
  150 cm DBH · 54 SOUTHWELL DR · view → · Banbury-Don Mills
• Ruby Red Horsechestnut Aesculus x carnea 'Briotii'
  148 cm DBH · 49 BLUE RIDGE RD · view → · Bayview Village
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  146 cm DBH · 45 STAG HILL DR · view → · O'Connor-Parkview
• Serviceberry Amelanchier canadensis
  146 cm DBH · 266 CORNELIUS PKWY · view → · Downsview
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
  146 cm DBH · 12 DENEWOOD CRES · view → · Banbury-Don Mills
• Japanese Lilac Syringa reticulata
  145 cm DBH · 11 CORYLUS CRT · view → · West Humber-Clairville

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