Crowds admiring the District’s cherry trees are actually seeing a variety of blossoms, and the 12 different varieties range from Akebono to Yoshino. The majority of the trees that visitors to the ...

WASHINGTON — With nearly 4,000 Cherry Blossom trees across the Tidal Basin, it is easy to look at the collective and get lost in its beauty. But if you find yourself wandering around downtown and have ...

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. It is ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — If you missed your chance to check out the Yoshino cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin -- The National Park Service says a variety of cherry trees across the D.C. area and at the ...

Everyone has heard of the cherry blossom festival in Washington, D.C., when the tidal basin is surrounded every spring by beautiful pink and white blooms. But it turns out there’s one city in the U.S.