Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese cherry ...

Fall is actually the ideal time to propagate certain flowering plants, whether via seeds, cuttings, or division.

When the cherry trees flower along Washington, D.C.,'s Tidal Basin by the Potomac River, it's a sure sign that spring is here. The Yoshino cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) dominates the plantings, and for ...

Growing cherry trees in Washington was the brainchild of two flowering-cherry aficionados, Eliza Scidmore and Dr. David Fairchild. Scidmore, the first woman to sit on the National Geographic Society’s ...

Each spring, the drab colors of fall and winter are overtaken in North Park by vibrant hues of pink, as the blooms on hundreds of cherry trees planted in the park since 2009 begin flowering. But ...

Gardeners are preoccupied with the weather because it affects what we do, but this spring has been so remarkably odd that the normal chat has risen to a new level of purpose. The earlier a tree blooms ...