🌸🔬 Follies x The National Cherry Blossom Festival 🌸🔬

We are over the moon to have we partnered for the first time with the National Cherry Blossom Festival to create a giant 500-custom flower set. 

The set launched yesterday at the #BlossomKiteFestival inviting children of all ages to unleash their creativity and engineer their very own GIANT flower sculpture while celebrating the science behind the stunning cherry blossoms! 

Each piece was inspired by cherry blossom varieties found in the National Mall.

 🌸Did you know Yoshino makes up a whopping 70% of the cherry trees in the park? And their flowers smell like sweet almonds - how cool is that?!

🌸Kwanzan is another variety to look out for, with double flowers boasting around 30 petals each, in clusters of 3 to 5. And if you take a closer look, you’ll see the petals hiding two green leafy carpels in the center of the flower!

 🌸And last but definitely not least, Okame is one of the rarest cherries in DC, accounting for less than 1% of the cherry trees in the park. But what it lacks in numbers, it makes up for in being the earliest flowering cherry!

Missed yesterdays Blossom Kite Festival? Cherry Blossom Follies will be making an appearance at Oxon Run Pinknic (April 2) and Petalpalooza (April 8). Make sure to follow @cherryblossfest for the event calendar and follow us on Instagram for all the  behind the scenes.