If you are looking for a cherry tree that will bloom for you from mid- to late April and even into May, you will want to buy a cultivar of Prunus serrulata. The earliest flowering ornamental cherry ...

Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese cherry ...

The most reliable and readily available variety of flowering cherry is the Kwanzan (Prunus serrulata Kwanzan), found at the Dallas Arboretum and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Yoshino is the variety ...

Mother Nature couldn’t care less that the 50th anniversary of Northern California’s Cherry Blossom Festival does not begin until the weekend of April 8-9. She put the cherry blossoms in full bloom ...

Blooming cherry trees frame the Jefferson Memorial as it is seen across the Tidal Basin in Washington. RON EDMONDS AP FILE Imagine the nation’s capital without its icons: no Washington Monument, no ...

AE Housman’s poem, like the tree it celebrates, is much loved. Very few displays in nature’s extensive repertoire can match the impact of cherry blossom. There may still be a nip in the air but boughs ...