DC -- Natl Cherry Blossom Festival -- Macy's Cherry Blossom Show:
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- Description of Pictures: A new tradition blooms at Macy's Metro Center in Washington, DC with the opening of Macy's Cherry Blossom Show, a whimsical floral fantasy highlighting the celebrated trees. The show will serve as a spectacular backdrop for two weeks of in-store special events, including musical and dance performances, fashion presentations, cooking demonstrations, and more!
Macy's has transformed its main floor with dozens of towering Japanese cherry trees in full flower, a haze of glorious pinks and delicate whites punctuated by three beautiful Japanese gardens, each serenely beautiful and impeccably detailed.
The flowering trees you'll discover at Macy's are being introduced to Washington, DC for the first time at Cherry Blossom time. Our white trees are Snow Goose cherries, a relatively new hybrid and the pinks are Okains, an older, more established species. Neither of these trees is represented in the traditional Tidal Basin display.
At the conclusion of this show, Macy's will donate all 60 of its cherry trees to the National Park Service, which will in turn plant them permanently in East Potomac Park and other locations in Washington, DC.
Macy's Cherry Blossom Flower Show is dedicated to the people of Japan whose lives have been shattered, changed, or lost in the recent disasters.
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- MACYS_110329_05.JPG: Macy's Cherry Blossom Show is dedicated to the people of Japan whose lives have been
shattered, changed or lost by the recent earthquake and its catastrophic aftermath.
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