Crowds admiring the cherry trees around D.C.’s Tidal Basin are actually seeing a 12 different varieties of blossoms that range from Akebono to Yoshino.

Yoshino cherries produce many single white blossoms that create the effect of white clouds around the Tidal Basin. Kwanzan cherry trees primarily grow in East Potomac Park.

Yoshino Cherry grows quickly to 20 feet, has beautiful bark but is a relatively short-lived tree. It has upright to horizontal branching, making it ideal for planting along walks and over patios.

Paperbark – This cherry tree looks the same as the Yoshino cherry when blooming, with its clusters of white blooms on outreaching branches, but there is a key difference between the two trees ...

More than 10 percent of the trees in Potomac Park are of the mid-April flowering Kwanzan or Kanzan cherry, which to my mind is a dud: too coarse in structure, too blowsy in its double flower, too ...

Comments: Choose with care your flowering cherry, as it will be a garden companion for many years. San Francisco's Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in Japantown on April 12, 13, 19 and 20, with ...

Instead, you can bring the blooms right to you with a purchase of your very own cherry blossom tree. Home Depot has several varieties available for shipping, all for $38.98.

Capital Weather Gang Kwanzan cherry trees are exploding in pink — but they are such a mess May 7, 2018 More than 7 years ago Summary ...

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.