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.

A cherry tree can live an average of 30 years. “ They get weathered, splits, insect infestations,” he said. Murphy adopted one small Yoshino tree on Hughes Place, which the Urban Resources Initiative ...

Get ready for cherry blossoms! Small green buds are appearing on the Yoshino cherry trees, marking the 1st of 6 stages on the way to Peak Bloom. It's all happening on the National Mall!

The Yoshino cherry trees on D.C.’s Tidal Basin are starting to bud, marking the first of six stages on the way to peak bloom, the National Park Service said.

It was a sad farewell in D.C. when a beloved Tidal Basin cherry tree had to be removed last spring, but there’s hope on the horizon as cuttings from “Stumpy” have taken root.

The popular Yoshino cherry trees make up about 70 percent of D.C.'s approximately 3,800 cherry trees, according to the National Park Service (NPS), and by now you may have heard cold temperatures ...

Another popular cherry tree is the 'Kanzan' (Prunus 'Kanzan'), which is also a cultivar. You can identify this variety, says Watkins, thanks to its double flowers that form in impressive clusters ...

So people associate Japanese cherry trees with Japanese gardening, but Japanese cherry trees are actually more of like a park and public space element that’s used and they will appear in Japanese ...

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.