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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 ...
In the present day, ornamental cherry blossom trees are distributed and cultivated worldwide. [1] While flowering cherry trees were historically present in Europe, North America, and China, [2] the practice of cultivating ornamental cherry trees was centered in Japan, [3] and many of the cultivars planted worldwide, such as that of Prunus × yedoensis, [4] [5] have been developed from Japanese ...
Cherry tree in bloom in Yachounomori Garden, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, April 2009 The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Sakura usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1]: 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms).
Cherry blossoms first landed on American soil in 1912 as a gift from the people of Japan to the United States, according to Metro Parks Tacoma. Although the trees were intended to be primarily ...
Here are 30 places to see cherry blossoms in the US, from an Ohio college campus and a botanical garden in Dallas and a quiet suburb outside of Washington, D.C.
Since the original cherry trees were planted on the National Mall in 1912, the earliest the Yoshino Cherry blossoms have reached peak bloom was March 15 in 1990. The latest was April 18 in 1958.
In 2020, traditional cherry blossom season events were canceled and tourists did not come to Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [21] The 2021 peak bloom day in Kyoto, March 26, was the earliest since record-tracking began in 812. Peak blooms have been trending earlier since 1800, an example of season creep caused by climate change. [22] [23 ...
Cherry blossoms are used for beautification purposes and have been as a symbolic gesture of friendship between Japan and the U.S. for more than a century. [6] In 2024, Time Out included Seattle in a list of the thirteen best places for cherry blossom viewing in the United States.