• Gallery of cherry blossom stock photos including striking scenes of dense freezing fog immersing the Tidal Basin during early spring.

• Include striking scenery of the Yoshino cherry blossoms in peak bloom around the basin with iconic views of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument.

• Please take a look at my photograph gallery of the Yoshino cherry blossoms below.

• If you would like to see more cherry blossom stock photos at full-size and resolution and or/are interested in purchasing a photograph/s please visit my photography portfolio on Adobe Stock by clicking on the link provided : Liberty Photo Art Adobe Stock Portfolio

Cherry blossom stock photos are now available to purchase from my Adobe Stock photography portfolio:

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Below you'll also find internal photo galleries featuring cherry blossom stock photos including iconic architecture, statuary and memorials from around the Tidal Basin including the Jefferson Memorial & Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial :

• Thomas Jefferson Memorial
• Tidal Basin
• Tidal Basin view of the Jefferson Memorial
• FDR Memorial Third Term Room
• Martin Luther King Memorial

A brief history of the Tidal Basin cherry trees to go alongside my cherry blossom stock photos

• 3,000 cherry blossoms were given to Washington DC as a gift from the Mayor Jukio Ozaki of Toyko in 1912.

• The Japanese cherry trees were give as a gift to help enhance the friendship between the United States & Japan and celebrate the continued close relationship between the two countries.

• The National Cherry Blossom Festival has commemmorated this generous gift from Japan since 1927.

• From modest beginnings the festival has blossomed into a truly national event welcoming around 1.5 million visitors each year over the four weekend span of the festival.

• The official peak bloom date of the cherry blossoms is determined when 70% of the Yoshino cherry blossoms are open.

• Typically peak bloom occurs somewhere between the last week in March and first week in April with a few exceptions due to extreme weather conditions.

• Earliest peak bloom ever recorded was on March 15th 1990 and the latest April 18th 1958.

• The Yoshino variety of cherry trees typically bloom for several days, but the length of the blooming period depends on weather conditions.