They’re not nearly as popular as the District’s celebrated cherry trees, but they’re easily as colorful, and can be found nearly everywhere in the city.

Climate Chronograph is a plan to fill Hains Point with cherry trees, then let tides encroach on the land and kill the plant life to exhibit global climate change.

Photo by t.e.a. The National Park Service’s chief cherry blossom prognosticator, horticulturalist Rob DeFeo, has at last delivered the goods: he announced this morning that the estimated peak bloom period for Washington’s famous cherry trees will run from April 3-8, while the overall bloom period will last from March 31 to April 11. Given this year’s epic winter, that’s not actually very late at all. The average peak bloom date is April 4, according…

Photo by dmclici WTOP reports that a number of cherry trees around the Tidal Basin were damaged by heavy snowfall this month. “A number of branches have been split, and there have been a couple of trees that have had the canopies taken off,” National Park Service spokesman Bill Line tells WTOP after he toured the area. In some cases, branches six inches thick have been snapped off. Branches on other cherry trees are…