Every spring, a stand of gnarled old cherry trees on the shore of Lake Merritt between Bellevue Avenue and El Embarcadero put on an astounding floral show. Their buds emerge in April as marble ...

Cherry blossoms also burst in all their glory on either side side of the lake at Warinanco Park, a 205-acre park in Linden, Elizabeth and Roselle. With spring officially here, the Garden State ...