And local festivals celebrate the joys of cherry blossoms — while they last. "It is ephemeral; that's what's so magical about it," says Peter Clarke, owner of Clarke's Garden and Home ...

Each spring during sakura (cherry blossom) season, the Ninna-ji and Daikaku-ji temples in Kyoto's leafy Ukyo ward are overwhelmed by busloads of tourists who come to snap photos of the temples ...

One town in the North East holds the world’s largest collection of Taihaku cherry blossom trees. The Alnwick Garden is a complex of formal gardens next to Alnwick Castle in Alnwick, Northumberland.