What joy it has been to see trees flowering this season. In March, some witch hazels were spotted with yellow or orange flowers, and throughout April one species after another opened its blossoms in ...

Considered one of the most beautiful flower parks in Japan, the Ashikaga Flower Park hosts a month-long Great Wisteria Festival showcasing its 160-year-old wisteria trees in full bloom, which are ...

Each spring, Japan is crowned with a fluttery wreath of pink cherry blossoms, which draw crowds of admirers and inspire many celebrations. But this year, as Laurel Wamsley reports for NPR, the country ...

Every spring, travelers from around the world visit Japan to see the country's cherry blossoms, but the season also brings several other stunning blooms to admire. Wisteria, known as fuji in Japanese, ...

But this will be our first time walking through them and under them and smelling the blossoms as well as looking at them. We are on the south side of the tidal basin, which has become home to not only ...

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 ...

You don’t have to live in Washington, D.C. to experience the wonder of cherry blossoms. In 1926 Japan gifted 1,600 cherry trees to Philadelphia for the American Sesquicentennial, and they’ve been a ...