And for all those people spotting cherries in flower - that'll be winter-flowering cherry.

A winter-flowering cherry, planted in memory of someone in a place I cannot visit to water regularly, bit the dust last spring, but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter.

"Ye do like it; ye've gone all gooseflesh and your nipples are hard as spring cherries."

The ruins of Shibata castle are the main visitor attraction and provide the backdrop to the spring cherry blossom viewing parties.

"Like spring cherries!"

Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.

Mitaka is home to the Ghibli Museum, which is located in Inokashira Park, a popular destination in its own right, especially during spring cherry blossom viewing season.

BRANCH BROOK PARK Annual spring Cherry Blossom Festival, through today.

The generally humid, temperate climate exhibits marked seasonal variation such as the blooming of the spring cherry blossoms, the calls of the summer cicada and fall foliage colors that are celebrated in art and literature.

Prunus subhirtella (Prunus x subhirtella) sometimes also called Spring cherry, Higan cherry, or Rosebud cherry is a small deciduous flowering tree originating in Japan, but unknown in the wild.

The town site was platted by the railroad in May 1871, at a time in which the 1870 U.S. Census had already reported 435 pioneering men, women and children taking up residence on a location named for its beautiful spring cherry blossoms.

And here, as in Watteau's art, nature has a starring role, embodied in spring cherry trees in luxuriant bloom at the far right, autumn-tinged maples at the far left and a cluster of freakishly large hibiscus, symbolic of summer, halfway between.

Prunus serrulata or Japanese Cherry; also called Hill Cherry, Oriental Cherry or East Asian Cherry, is a species of cherry native to Japan, Korea and China and is used for its spring cherry blossom displays and festivals.

The Higan cherry is probably one of the most familiar forms of weeping plants known.

The single-flowered Higan cherry forms a shower of soft pale pink bloom that seem to burst from every twig.

Another early-flowering tree that deserves a place where it can show off is the single-flowering Higan cherry (Prunus subhirtella).

The tree was one of the Higan cherries (Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis), which do indeed flower in spring and again in fall.

Under the flowing Higan cherry, the wedding party of Widmark Cadet and Debbie Curtis posed for pictures.

Sample trees also include the Higan cherry in the south and Prunus sargentii (Sargent's cherry) in the north.

It is said to be a cross between edohiganzakura, the Tokyo Higan cherry (P. incisa) and mamezakura (P. pendula).

It is a weeping higan cherry (Prunus pendula "Pendula Rosea", benishidarezakura in Japanese) and is over 1,000 years old.

After exploring the farm, you can have lunch in the Holmdel Park cafeteria or picnic beside the lake, where people fish for trout, under the weeping Higan cherry trees.

The Higan cherries start to bloom in early April in the Japanese Garden, followed by wisteria, azaleas and Japanese iris in May.

Prunus subhirtella (Prunus x subhirtella) sometimes also called Spring cherry, Higan cherry, or Rosebud cherry is a small deciduous flowering tree originating in Japan, but unknown in the wild.

Prunus subhirtella (Prunus x subhirtella) sometimes also called Spring cherry, Higan cherry, or Rosebud cherry is a small deciduous flowering tree originating in Japan, but unknown in the wild.