The garden also features 40 Yoshino cherry trees, which have white blossoms. That’s the same type as some of the popular cherry trees that are featured in Washington, D.C.

2016 is the 35th anniversary of Sakura Matsuri, the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A map helps you track the bloom state of the trees.

The Botanic Garden has an incredible collection of more than 8,000 species from all over the world, including the Yoshino cherry. However, this year the tree has come into bloom five days earlier ...