The National Cherry Blossom Festival is one of Washington’s most popular tourist attractions, drawing more than 1.5 million ...

Using current technological and scientific advances, we are able to observe a snapshot of a plant group that is rapidly ...

The Weeping Japanese Cherry, sometimes called the Higan Cherry, is interspersed between the Yoshino, Akebono, and Kwanzan cherry trees. The flowers of the Weeping Cherry vary, blossoming as single or ...

Expand your yard's palette of spring flowers with iconic and new ideas you'll find in this list of top performers.

If you are keen to emulate some Japanese garden ideas in your own backyard, the easiest place to start is with some new tree plantings. Of course your hardiness zone will have a b ...

The older the tree becomes, the greater the display of peeled bark. Lastly, selections of Japanese maples (Acer japonicum) like “Sango Kaku,” also known as coral bark maple, feature rich coral ...

The "Okame" cherry trees aren't just located in the lovely Japanese Garden; you can find them near the Promenade, just inside the garden entrance. The Promenade, by the by, is going to be a ...

Exceptions include spring-flowering shrubs and trees — like Japanese magnolias, azaleas and bigleaf hydrangeas — that set flower buds the previous year. If you cut these plants back now ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods. But more ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Japanese Apricot (Prunus mume) is usually the first of the flowering ornamental fruit trees to show their color. This rounded 15- to 20-foot ...

Japanese magnolias are blooming across Louisiana ... something gardeners and enthusiasts should keep an eye on, the flowering trees will not to be damaged by the cold and the New Orleans forecast ...