When you plant a cherry tree in your backyard, you can choose from a potted or bare-root tree, depending on how they are sold at your local garden center. A bare-root tree is sold without any soil.

The real joy of growing these types of cherry trees arrives at harvest, which is usually 6 to 8 weeks after flowering. There are two groups of fruiting cherry trees—sweet cherries and sour cherries.

New York City boasts just about every type of Japanese cherry blossom tree variation in existence — and there are more than 200 different kinds. NYBG alone has about 60 variants, while the ...

If you're not tied to a specific type of cherry (or even getting edible fruit at all), you can still plant cherry seeds in your garden as a fun experiment. It's possible to end up with yummy fruit ...