Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on the best times to see the blossoms in Washington DC

It's spring on the other side of the world, which means it's almost peak cherry blossom season in Washington DC.

There's over 3000 cherry blossom trees in America's capital, and BloggerAtLarge writer Megan Singleton says timing is everything when it comes to seeing them in bloom.

Megan outlined her travel tips - read more about what she recommends here. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Me Now I took travel. Meghan Singleton, blogger at large
dot com. Good morning, Good morning. You are talking about
heading to New York and Washington DC this morning, but
for a particular reason.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
The Blossom, My entire tour, which is going to start
at Easter, was designed around what I was hoping would
be peak blossoms in Washington, d C. So I pretty much.
So I was there last year after Marti graand New Orleans,
and it was about mid March, and it was too early,
So I'm such a nerd. I've been watching the Blossom

(00:53):
Bloom tracker, yes, and I've been watching it for weeks
and weeks, and I found now some live blossom cameras
on the roof of a nearby hotel. Not that, of course,
they were in full function when I was booking my tour,
but anyway, it looks like we're going to be bang
on peak blossoms in Washington DC. So I've whipped up

(01:13):
a blog post with all of these links in it.
Which also shows you the live webcams. Now right now,
the trees are all not in bud or anything yet,
but I know from the tracker that they are in
that there are some florrets coming out on the branches.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The thing cannot it only on lasts about five seven days,
doesn't it? The peak blossom? The peak peak?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah? Yeah, but if you think about your own streets
or whatever in the spring, there's And also it's not
just the cherry blossoms. So the people of Japan gave
the people of America three thousand cherry blossom trees back
in nineteen twelve. They were all planted around the tidal basin,
which people will know if you've been there. The Thomas
Jefferson memorial sits there and all the way round that basin.

(01:56):
That's where you get those classic quintessential blossom photos. The
Washington Monument in the background. So I am all for
what we're getting up at seven o'clock and we're going walking.
It's just coming up to sunset now, although I think
they're going to get daylight saving. That might throw me
a little bit, but I'll be there for that magic
hour taking my photos as well. And I yeah, just

(02:17):
can't wait. So this post I've put in like there's
free walking maps that you can download, or you can
do tours of course, and you can be driven around
or you can go on an e cart or bikes
or whatever, but you can just walk around the tidle
basin and see the flowers in bloom. So, yes, peak
blossom is five to seven days, but you'll get about
a two to three week window of blossoms.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is it a very busy time? Like, is it annoying
to have everyone else in your photos? Is there crowds
that get in your photos?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's crazy crowds heads getting up at the crack and
heading straight out. And actually I've got thirteen people off
my tour of seventeen joining us in DC and so
we will all be doing that and they're up for it.
We're like yeah, because we're going to be staying quite
near the White House. I've also put a few hotels
that are quite nearby. DC a very spread out city,

(03:08):
so walking can take you know, suddenly you're like two miles.
Of course, they workn miles from one, you know, monument
to the next. And so I've got it really fined
down as to how we're going to get there as
quickly as possible and hopefully get out there before all
the masses I mean sunset. Yeah, it's going to be
all the messes, so expect lots of people's shots, but
you just lift your camera up and take photos into

(03:30):
the sky under the trees. That'll work.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Thank you so much, Megan, and you blossom with such
a thing.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
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