Cherry blossoms mean big business for Japan: each year, an estimated 63 million local and international tourists travel to and across the country to witness this candyfloss spectacle, spending $2.7bn ...

Here we are in mid-December — the sun is shining, the birds are singing and… the cherry blossoms are still blooming. Our skepticism was running high back in mid-November, when some of the trees on the ...

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Environmental Education Specialist Rhiannon Summers, at left, shows a leaf that fell from a cherry tree to hikers John Wittman and Lucy Wittman of Bloomsburg and Peggy Black of Laporte. The bark on a ...

Washington, D.C. 's National Cherry Blossom Festival begins later this month, but not everyone can drive to D.C. for a weekend just to look at pretty trees. And of course, not everyone can hop on a ...

Summer might be over but that means we benefit from the beautiful colours of autumn. One place that is looking wonderful right now is Salford's Peel Park, where the Cherry Blossom is looking more ...