Southern California is often called a gardener’s paradise because we can grow an amazing variety of plants. It’s warm enough to grow many tropical and subtropical fruits such as citrus, avocado, guava ...

Cherries in bloom are a sight to behold, but not all varieties can handle colder climates. For frosty backyards, this one is your best bet for a pop of red.

Prunus is all about blossom. To most people the word also suggests large flowering trees with hungry roots. But there is a neglected group of cherries that are much more biddable. Where space is short ...

Cherry blossom is a flower that grows of genus Prunus or Prunus tree. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not to be edible cherry trees. And, what is considered the national flower of ...

The most reliable and readily available variety of flowering cherry is the Kwanzan (Prunus serrulata Kwanzan), found at the Dallas Arboretum and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Yoshino is the variety ...

Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival gets under way tomorrow (March 28) with a month of activities to celebrate the beauty of cherry blossoms. For more information about the festival see my story on ...

Sometimes the very best plants for the garden turn out to be right under our noses. They are on show in every garden centre, yet somehow remain a little disregarded, not receiving the fanfare that ...

Among a variety of Korean cherry blossom trees, one of the most spectacular is the King cherry tree that uniquely grows naturally in Korea. In April each year, King cherry blossoms bloom like popcorn ...