Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Yoshino Cherry grows quickly to 20 feet, has beautiful bark but is a ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., is an occasion that visitors and locals look forward to each spring. You, too, can have a cherry blossom show in your own yard by planting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The frothy and fleeting Yoshino variety defines the Japanese flowering cherry tree experience at the Tidal Basin in Washington. Peak bloom is pegged for this week, markedly earlier than in 2015 when ...