Cherry blossom ... little easier to look after without losing out on appearance,’ Steve notes. If white blooms are more your cup of tea and you’d like your cherry blossom tree to bear some ...

“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.