Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese cherry ...

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

One of the earliest harbingers of spring is the cherry blossom tree (Prunus spp.), which bursts into pink and white clouds of cotton candy blossoms in March and April. They're celebrated at cherry ...