If you're looking for flowering trees to attract hummingbirds and cardinals to your yard, few do it as beautifully as the Kwanzan cherry (Prunus serrulata). Beloved for its lush, double-pink blossoms ...

Q: We planted a young flowering kwanzan cherry tree close to our one-story ranch style house a few years ago since it looked good there in a group of some little holly bushes under one of our windows.

People are complicated. The same species that brought you Thomas Kinkade also made Wassily Kandinsky world-famous. You're listening to John Coltrane while your neighbor is cranking ... what is that, ...

Did you know there's a special word in Japanese just to describe cherry blossom viewing? It's hanami — and there's no better way to spend a few hours in D.C. during cherry blossom season. Washington, ...