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The 49th annual Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival will take place from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 13 at Branch Brook Park, which is located in Newark and Belleville.See a list of events ...
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 ...
Bright red fruit hang from a cherry tree in the Casey-Shattuck Addition in downtown Juneau. The compact neighborhood of small homes is roughly defined by 12th Street, Glacier Avenue, Eighth Street ...
You don't need to visit Japan or Washington, D.C. to see cherry blossom trees. Here are three places around the U.S. where you can see the blooms — weather permitting.
A small army of volunteers, county workers and members of a local nonprofit maintain the more than 5,000 world-famous Japanese cherry blossom trees at Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ.
Stumpy is a hollow, stump-shaped cherry tree located on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington. It has a strip of bark on one side that transports nutrients to a few small branches ...
Some trees, like cherry and birch, have really prominent lenticels, but most are invisible to the human eye. Even if you can’t see them, they’re there, helping trees survive through even the ...
The Nationals will debut a new City Connect jersey this season but that won’t stop the original (which debuted in 2022) from being the gold standard cherry blossom sports jersey in D.C.
Coming into bloom two weeks later than the Yoshino, the upright Kwanzan branches produce heavy clusters of pink double blossoms. In East Potomac Park you'll also find Fugenzo and Shirofugen trees.
Cherry tree branches at Seaquist Orchards in Door County are weighed down by ice from Winter Storm Frannie March 31, 2025. (WLUK/Emily Matesic) ...
Without a doubt, the Essex County Branch Brook Park is the best place to see cherry blossoms in the Garden State. With some 5,300 cherry blossom trees in 18 varieties, ...