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The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
The National Park Service defines peak bloom as when 70% of the Yoshino cherry trees that line the Mall and Tidal Basin are flowering. A warm winter sped up this year's bloom cycle.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is returning with all its pageantry, Washington's unofficial re-emergence from two years of pandemic limits and closures. This year's cherry blossom trees will ...
After the National Cherry Blossom Festival ends on April 14, the NPS is slated to remove nearly 160 cherry trees in the capital, in an effort to repair the city’s deteriorating seawalls. The ...
The famous sakura Japanese cherry trees of Washington, D.C., line the Tidal Basin and are the main attraction at the National Cherry Blossom Festival in early spring, when the cherry blossoms bloom. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, upon returning to Washington, D.C., from a visit to Japan, initiated the idea of cherry trees in Washington, D.C., She ...
The Japanese Lantern is a stone lantern in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. It is located next to the Tidal Basin, among the cherry trees first planted in 1912. It is lighted during the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The Cherry Blossom Festival Parade on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. along Constitution Avenue. The Petalpalooza music and arts festival from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Capital Riverfront on April 6 ...
Cherry Blossom Festival may refer to: National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC; The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival; Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, a spring celebration; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA