It looks like all of the Asian plums and plum hybrids are blooming now. They seem to have a lot of overlap.
Hollywood Plum. I grew this from a cutting, from the Hollywood plum I had in Vancouver. It stays fairly small.
Crimson Pointe (I think), ornamental plum.
The white flowered branch for this plum is Beauty. The tree also has a graft from a very dark skin and flesh pluot, farmer's market, that I grew from seed. It has never fruited, but it blooms. This tree was originally "Ember", a hybrid Asian/American plum that never bore either. I had grafted it on a Hollywood rootstock, which seems to work fine.
This tree is Methley. The tree is more than 8 years old - I replanted it from my old front yard in Vancouver, where it had grown for a couple of years. The pollinating Hollywood (again) branch seems not to be there now. It also has a branch of Shiro also in bloom.
This is Flavor Supreme Pluot. I don't know if it bloomed before. I planted this a couple of years ago in the front orchard. It's too much trouble to water and weed that area now. It has continued to grow anyway.
There is also an unknown plum, possibly grown from seed, that was here when we bought the place. I went crazy grafting other varieties to it - Shiro, Hollywood (of course), Ember, Hanska, La Crescent. I don't think any of those Hansen plums (Ember, Hanska, LaCrescent) has ever borne a single fruit. They bloom every year. Still, it's a pretty tree.
Nadia plum X cherry hybrid is next to the highly grafted tree. Nadia is also blooming.
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