The Japanese flowering cherry trees now in serene flower around Washington's Tidal Basin are, for the most part, clones of a single plant favored in 19th-century Tokyo and named Somei-Yoshino. It is ...

Green buds popped up Tuesday on the Yoshino cherry trees around the Tidal Basin — stage one of six on the path to peak bloom. The National Park Service tracks the six stages: 1, green buds; 2, florets ...

SEATTLE — As the cherry blossoms start to bloom, the University District kicks off its third annual U District Cherry Blossom Festival. In honor of the historic cherry blossom viewing on the ...

WASHINGTON – The nation's capital is prematurely grieving over the expected loss of Stumpy, the city's favorite little cherry tree on the Tidal Basin. But a plan to give the little tree new life by ...

Researchers have developed a model that uses gene activity to predict when Somei Yoshino cherry tree buds awake from dormancy. Their findings could not only help improve the accuracy of flowering ...

This video is no longer available. Crowds admiring the District’s cherry trees are actually seeing a variety of blossoms, and the 12 different varieties range from Akebono to Yoshino. The majority of ...

Everyone has heard of the cherry blossom festival in Washington, D.C., when the tidal basin is surrounded every spring by beautiful pink and white blooms. But it turns out there’s one city in the U.S.

Q: I planted three Flowering Yoshino Cherry trees from pots about four years ago. Watered and fertilized the same for all these years. Two of the trees are doing okay. For some reason, one of the ...

If you are as obsessed with Washington D.C.’s famous cherry blossoms as we are, then you are probably looking for even more ways to experience (OK, stalk) these delicate blooms as winter turns to ...

Activists want to replace a variety of cherry tree associated with the Japanese colonial era with one they say is Korean. The science is messy. Cherry trees on the verge of blooming in Gyeongju, South ...

TOKYO – Cherry trees started flowering in Tokyo on March 24, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced. That is five days earlier than 2024, and the trees are expected to be in full bloom in about a ...