Thanks to the Japanese passion for flowering cherry trees and the breeding that's been carried ... Any type of soil is fine if it’s not too wet in winter. Plant bare-root trees November to March and ...

If you cut at the trunk, pour a herbicide on it within ten minutes of cutting so it can absorb into the deep root system ... the Bradford pear as an ornamental tree. As they started growing ...

Last year, more than 150 of the flowering ... the NPS. Cherry trees rely on dry land and fresh water. When the Tidal Basin floods, saltwater saturates the soil and can enter the roots of the ...

We are on the south side of the tidal basin, which has become home to not only iconic monuments, but more than 2500 Japanese flowering cherry ... and hit the roots of the trees, causing harm.