Growing your own fruits and vegetables can bring you a sense of pride and peace of mind in knowing exactly where your produce ...

Once the flowers open, cherry blossoms typically stick around for just one to two weeks, and that window can shrink depending ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” in their bark.

Ornamental cherry trees rarely produce fruit but their bold flowers provide nourishment to early season pollinators. These deciduous trees are hardy in Zones 5 to 9 and grow best in full sun.

The Japanese cherry trees that bloom in a cloud of pink in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., rarely thrive in this area.

Peak bloom occurs when 70% of the blossoms of the Yoshino cherry trees, the most common type along the Tidal Basin, are open. The National Park Service, which tracks the blooming of the trees each ...

Cherry blossoms are most likely to reach peak ... After the first two season, watering every two weeks is fine. The trees grow relatively fast, but don't last long. Their life spans are usually ...

In the chilly winters of British Columbia, sweet cherry trees employ a fascinating survival trick called supercooling, allowing their flower buds to stay unfrozen even in sub-zero temperatures. But ...