The Green-Wood Cemetery is preparing its annual cherry blossom season, during which their 172 Japanese cherry blossom trees will bloom. Photo by Amy Nieporent/The Green-Wood Cemetery With spring just ...

Japanese cherry blossoms gained particular popularity in the U.S. following the trees being planted in Washington D.C. as a gift from the people of Japan to the people of America in 1912 meant to ...

Cherry trees in full bloom frame the Capitol in Washington on Monday. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press) Peak bloom has arrived for the thousands of Japanese cherry blossom trees at the ...

They were parked near a strand of Japanese cherry trees on Ohio Drive, not far from the Tidal Basin. Dawn traffic wove past as the bus-length chipper spat the limbs back as stamp-size wood flecks.

The city will plant 16 additional cherry blossom trees in a location to be determined; one potential site is the parkland being developed as part of the waterfront’s transformation.