DC Tidal Basin: Cherry Blossoms Expected to Peak this Week

WTOP ^ | Mar 26th 2006

[Ligeia]

WASHINGTON - The cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin will be getting plenty of attention this week, especially if the weather gets warmer.

The blossoms are supposed to hit peak bloom Monday, and the National Park Service's chief horticulturist said it should last for about 10 to 14 days.

The National Cherry Blossom Festival started Saturday, and is expected to bring about one million people to the city. The festival runs through April 9.

This marks the 94th anniversary of Japan's gift of the trees to Washington

[Ligeia]

National Park Service

[Patriot from Philly]

Early this year! They are so pretty.

[Cagey]

Something about reading the words "Tidal Basin". Cherry blossoms are not what I think of first.

[Ligeia]

I forgot about them! Ah, the memories....

[VOA]

I forgot about them! Ah, the memories....

When a few Democrats could still blush.
So long ago...

[fso301]

Fannie Fox, The Tidal Basin Bombshell.

[Cagey]

She was the "Tidal Basin Bombshell". Another Arkansas romance. LOL

I'm with you on GMU. What a great game!

[Ligeia]

Early this year! They are so pretty.

We've had an exceptionally mild winter. Global warming, you know....

[Ligeia]

I'm with you on GMU. What a great game!

Anyone who's ever taken a course at GMU is polishing up his window decal and digging out a coffee mug or two this week. Lots of folks in northern Virginia are/have been enrolled in graduate school at GMU. Did you happen to hear when the next game is in Indianapolis?

[Cagey]

Next Saturday in Indy, vs. Villanova or Florida.

[sine_nomine]

I think the Jefferson Memorial is so beautiful. I will never forget standing there.

I wonder how many think of the remarkable men who built this country? Most Freepers do, I am sure. The more I read history, the more I see how fortunate we were to have so many great men leading the country and creating a Republic, a free Republic.

I imagine Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire influenced them to some extent, since the volumes began to come out during the Revolutionary War.

[gleeaikin]

When I first visited DC in the 60's, the blossoms always peaked around the 6th or 7th of April. Now, I am told it is usually the end of March. Global warming?

[Ligeia]

Thanks!

[Ligeia]

I think the Jefferson Memorial is so beautiful. I will never forget standing there

Agreed, a truly magnificent memorial.

[Western Phil]

The cherry blossoms are a gentle pastel. The flowering crab apples which bloom a little later are more colorful. Don't believe there are any of those around the tidal basin, but there are lots in the DC area.

[nicollo]

Here's a c. 1920 shot of the Tidal Basin in bloom:

[rrrod]

Spring time in DC...can we expect John McCain and Lindsey Graham to be spotted in the park strolling hand in hand?

[tgslTakoma]

She was only a stripper from The Silver Slipper
but she had her ways and means...
(I grew up in this area, and I had a couple of HS spanish teachers who were weekend (read:unknown) musicians in DC bars. They wrote The Ballad of Fannie Fox. That's all I remember of their song.

[nicollo]

I think the Jefferson Memorial is so beautiful. I will never forget standing there. I wonder how many think of the remarkable men who built this country?

How 'bout the remarkable woman who brought the Cherry Trees to the Tidal Basin?

Nellie Taft : The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era

[Ligeia]

Lovely, thank you.