Thank you for answering my email to master gardener’s blog in Port Townsend. These are the pictures of the trees in question at Manresa Hall. They look so beautiful and neither I nor Maxine know their names. It would be so wonderful, if you could help us.
Thank you, Jennifer
Manresa Castle in Spring
The following comment is from Sarah:
educated guess w/o a site visit
flowering cherries since the flowering plums are past the bloom period
the shape of the tree suggests cherry
without close up of leaf, flower, bark, and junction between a twig to bigger branch or twig to flowerbud it is a guess
The following comment is from Ken:
I drove around the Castle the Thursday and they are definitely flowering cherries (Prunus serrulata). The courtyard has four and there are several on the north side as well. All in bloom. The very visible horizontal lenticels on the bark are a dead give away.