The bloom is off the cherry. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual cherry blossom festival is set for this weekend – but the trees jumped the gun. Their colorful blossoms reached the hei… ...

April is prime time for cherry blossom viewing in New York City. China News Service via Getty Images “It’s a signal to everybody that winter is over and spring has begun,” Todd Forrest, the ...

White cherry blossoms in Brooklyn Heights. Cherry blossoms — and a host of other flowers — are blooming all over the borough, not just in lush gardens. Photo by Ximena Del Cerro. Daffodils and ...

Brooklyn’s signature symbols of spring are ready to pop. The cherry trees on Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s famed Esplanade are primed to bloom — just in time for this weekend’s Cherry Blossom ...

BROOKLYN, NYC — Spring is almost in bloom, and Brooklyn is getting ready to showcase its collection of cherry blossoms once again this year. "The cherry trees haven’t started blooming yet ...

The cherry blossom festival coincides with the opening of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s new Yellow Magnolia Café, which was named for a flower developed by the BBG.

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 29: Visitors photograph the blossoms during the “Sakura Matsuri” (cherry blossom festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on April 29, 2018, in New York City.

Spring has sprung at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this week. The garden's lush cherry blossoms have reached peak bloom, which will last for a limited time before the ground is covered in pink petals.

Our own cherry blossom heritage owes much to Japan. In 1912, as a gesture of good will and friendship, the country’s government sent more than 3,000 cherry trees to the United States .