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 ...

This video is no longer available. 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 ...

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall hosted a ceremonial cherry tree planting on the banks of the Washington Channel, at Fort Lesley J. McNair, April 19. The ceremony was held in honor of the 100-year ...

Stumpy lives! Genetically, at least. The U.S. National Arboretum announced Tuesday that clippings from the original cherry tree on the Tidal Basin rooted into self-sustaining plants -- meaning the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping gingerly over the ...

Spring officially starts with the spring or vernal equinox, occurring at 11:06 pm EST on March 19, when the Earth perfectly aligns so that both hemispheres receive equal amount of sunlight. But in the ...

Stepping gingerly over the lawn in their spiky heels, first lady Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, the wife of Japan’s prime minister, planted a cherry tree at the White House on Monday to honor decades of ...