It seems an improbable notion of landscape architecture: Create a big pond to control the tide, surround it with 1,700 Japanese flowering cherry trees, and place near it a Roman monument to a ...

Known as BloomCam, the cameras are streaming to give constant views of the Japanese flowering cherry trees, or Yoshino trees, that are planted along the Tidal Basin area of the National Mall.

We've got other things to do." More than 300 seedlings, grown from rare Japanese flowering cherry trees, will be sold to the public on Friday. (Rafferty Baker/CBC) The sale runs at the BCIT ...