An Essex County park credited by local officials with having the nation’s largest collection of cherry blossom trees drew big crowds during its annual festival, which concluded Sunday.

As the Washington, D.C. cherry blossoms reached their peak for 2025, trees around New York and New Jersey were starting to bloom. Some flowers have already been spotted in Central Park ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival may be over, but bloom season is just getting started. Spring in D.C. is still vibrant despite the end of the cherry blossoms’ peak bloom at the Tidal Basin.

It’s known as peak bloom, the day 70 percent of blossoms are open on Washington’s iconic cherry trees around… ...

Harper Debra Armstrong, 5, is shown during her performance in the Little Miss Cherry Blossom contest. 5-year-old Harper Debra ...