I have an established weeping cherry blossom tree in my front yard (west facing). It appears to have had better days. I think the drought a couple of summers ago damaged it. We lost one of its ...

Its weeping ito-zakura (thread cherry blossom) tree comes into flower a week earlier than in usual years. The name of the tree comes from its thread-thin drooping branches.

This large weeping cherry stands on a low, fenced-in rise behind the shrine. This beauty is actually the second such tree on the site, the first having withered in 1947 after some 200 years in ...