Every spring, as over 3,000 cherry trees bloom and adorn the city with pastel pink and white flowers, the National Cherry Blossom Festival brings D.C. to life. This annual event (March 20-April 13) ...

The National Park Service, tasked with predicting peak bloom in advance of the capital city’s National Cherry Blossom Festival, says it’s virtually impossible to say with accuracy more than 10 ...

Spring is coming, and so is the 15th Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival. From March 15 to April 15, Gucun Park will transform into a breathtaking sea of cherry blossoms, with over 16,000 trees ...

Many visitors enjoyed the final day of a cherry blossom festival featuring an early-blooming variety, Kawazu-zakura, in a town in central Japan on Sunday. The variety is said to have been found in ...

Over 100 cherry blossom trees have been planted along the riverside at On King Street Park in Shek Mun, Sha Tin. Perfect place for a morning stroll or a bike ride on a breezy afternoon.

In fact, this Pennsylvania city hosts the annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival each spring. If you are eager to capture images of the blooms, plan a visit between the last week in March and the first ...

Springtime means sakura season, which also means the inevitable cherry blossom crowds that you will encounter where the delicate flower blooms. Whether it’s the passers-by walking along with ...

On top of activities like visiting a sakura flower display or sakura festival, you can also get your hands on cute cherry blossom-themed merch and menu items, as part of Starbucks' Spring collection.

As part of the celebration and the return of the team’s retro jerseys, the unveiled cherry blossom jerseys, set to be auctioned off later this month, feature the Screaming Eagle grabbing a cherry ...

Marlee Theil has got cherry blossom season down to a science. Literally. Theil, a University of Washington grad student who is studying in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and is ...

In Japanese tattoos, the lotus can signify a person's path from adversity to enlightenment, as well as their capacity to conquer hardships. Traditional Japanese cherry blossom tattoos are deeply ...

Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.