The Cherry Blossom Festival has come and gone here in Central Georgia but today you have the opportunity to get your own personal tree. Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful is selling Yoshino Cherry Trees.

2. Prunus ‘Candy Floss’ A slightly larger tree that will reach up to 15ft when fully mature, this one is totally hardy and produces an profusion of pink flowers in the spring.

The other 16 cherry trees will be planted in a location to be determined with the possibility for some to be planted over the 20 acres of parkland being developed on the waterfront, the city said.

“Even though there are almost 7,000 miles between Tokyo and D.C., these trees bring us closer together,” said Diana Mayhew, president and CEO of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

In 1912, the mayor of Tokyo donated 3,000 cherry trees as a gesture of goodwill to D.C. Ever since, the District has celebrated the friendship and the blossoms, with the first ever festival ...