If you’ve never experienced it, cherry blossom season is like a moment of calm in the chaos of life. Cherry blossom trees—specifically the Yoshino cherry trees—burst into bloom, transforming parks and ...

And most of them look beautiful all year long ... If white blooms are more your cup of tea and you’d like your cherry blossom tree to bear some fruit as well, especially since fruit trees ...

“You need to look at the sakura when it’s like that,” Sano notes. “The sakura isn’t only about its blossoms.” Heeding his advice, I gazed up at a Somei-Yoshino cherry tree in my ...

Sake drinkers at first see only a cherry tree with empty branches adorning their cup. But as cold sake is poured, they watch cherry flowers appear and bloom one by one, as if by magic.

The Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1 in Waimea. The festival is ...