stage one bloom

Some of the famous cherry blossom trees around D.C.’s Tidal Basin entered the first phase of their blooming cycle, the National Park Services (NPS) announced Thursday. NPS said in a tweet that the Yoshino cherry blossom trees have started to develop green buds, the first of six stages culminating in peak bloom. NPS makes its own prediction about the...

Meteorologist Amelia Draper predicts it will be about another month before the cherry blossoms bloom.