A shrine in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto has opened its renowned plum garden to the public, allowing visitors to admire blossoms.

The Setagaya Plum Blossom Festival is held at Hanegi Park, a neighborhood park known for its collection of around 650 plum trees. During the blooming season, the park becomes a local spot for enjoying ...

As winter’s chill lingers in the air, the delicate plum blossom, or ume, emerges in Tokyo, signaling the first hint of spring before the more famous cherry blossoms steal the spotlight. At Hanegi Park ...

Q: We have several fruit trees in our backyard. One of them is a plum tree. For the first time, we have lots of plums on the tree. The problem is that the plums keep falling off as soon as they get ...

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

A visitor poses for photos at a plum blossom garden in the Guian New Area, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 24, 2026.

The picture window in front of me opens on to the vast, lit expanse of Tokyo. Just off centre of this screen is a dark area—the gardens of the Imperial grounds that house the residence of the royal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a ridiculous level of anxiety going on in my garden involving four types of plums and a commitment to try not to show up at my friend Gerald’s house ...

Although there is still nearly a month until the Lunar New Year, the villages of Son, Ba, and Muoi (Co Lung commune, Thanh ...

If anyone had ever told me as a child growing up in the United States that a flower could flourish in the coldest days of winter, a flower that bloomed straight from the bare branches of a tree, I ...