Branch Brook’s original cherry blossom trees were planted in the 1920s — at one point, 2,500 trees bloomed each year. By 2006, the number had dwindled due to aging trees.

This Cherry Blossom Welcome Center isn't just another feather in his cap — it's a love letter to the state, a space created by a local, for the locals. For North Jersey, Branch Brook Park is ...

The Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival in Branch Brook Park will take place from April 5 to April 13 with peak bloom expected the second and third weeks of April. The park has the largest and ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- It's cherry blossom season, and they're in full bloom right now at Essex County's Branch Brook Park. The park in Newark has more than 5,200 cherry blossom trees in more than a ...

Essex County Branch Brook Park has the largest and most varied collection of Japanese flowering cherry blossom trees in the United States; with 5,300 in 18 varieties. For more information, click here.

County officials said that at least 100,000 visited Branch Brook Park to view the park’s 5,300 cherry blossom trees during the nine-day, 49th annual Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival.

You don't need to visit Japan or Washington, D.C. to see cherry blossom trees. Here are three places around the U.S. where you can see the blooms — weather permitting.

The flowers of the Weeping Cherry vary, blossoming as single or double flowers and in colors from dark pink to white. Weeping Japanese cherry trees flower about a week before the Yoshino trees.