Tropicana March-April 2024 #153 The Festive Issue

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MARCH/APRIL 2024 SOJOURN
Amsterdamse Bos, Netherlands
Take a stroll with family and friends in early April through
Amsterdamse Bos park when it hosts its’ annual cherry blossom
festival. Four hundred cherry blossom trees were gifted by the
Japan’s Women Club in the year 2000 to celebrate each year of ties
between the two countries. Their dedicated section of the park is
found in Kersenbloesempark and it is the only cherry blossom park
where the trees were individually named. Two hundred have female
Japanese names while the other two hundred trees were given
female Dutch names.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York
The Brookly Botanic Garden throws an annual cherry blossom festival
called Sakura Matsuri usually during the last weekend of April. If it is
impossible to make it during that time, fret not as the Botanic Garden
is home to 42 species of cherry blossoms and each take turns to
bloom between late-March to mid-May. And even if that time frame
does not work out, the Botanic Gardens is a must-see no matter the
time of year except for winter. It is also wildly famous for their vibrant
tulips in Spring.
From top: Street with canal and
Old Church falling tower of Delft
at spring in Amsterdamse Bos,
Netherlands; Weeping Cherry
Blossom and Pine in Brooklyn,
New York