Matthew Morrison

So we have 20,000 trees park wide, but of the cherry trees in particular, we have right around 3,700.

It's like a flower garden where the flowers are 30 feet tall.

It's really what it is.

I've been an arborist since 1979.

I oversee everything to do with the trees.

But once spring comes and it starts to get warmer... The scales will peel away and then you'll have the first stage of flower development and we call that green bud.

And when that bud opens up, just like the bud scales did, you can see the little tips of the flower in there.

The florets, it's like a little flowerette.

You can see the pink or the white in there.

The florets are just a little bit more exposed.

I kind of think of like a mouse in a nest that's kind of opened its eyes for the first time and looking around and it's still protected, but it's aware.

So the peduncle elongation is when that flower...

The petals are still closed, but it's elongated and you don't just have those little tips.

It would be as if that mouse that I just said is an analogy.

If you saw like the entire length of its torso, it's more presented.

And that's the peduncle elongation.

It's not opened like a regular flower, but the petals are entire.

They're still kind of protecting one another.

And then after that, it opens up and we have full bloom.

And full bloom is the final stage.