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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has scheduled its annual cherry blossom festival for the first two days of May — but nobody told the trees.

They’re already in full bloom, and visitors to the Japanese-themed Sakura Matsuri Festival will have to look down to the ground to see the fallen pink flowers.

Garden spokeswoman Kate Blumm said the event is planned well in advance and it’s hard to determine in what stage the cherry blossoms will be.

But she’s sure life will still be a bowl of cherries for the tens of thousands of visitors because “we consider it a pleasure to celebrate our collection of flowering cherries, no matter what stage of bloom they are in.”

The event, which the garden calls New York’s rite of spring, is the culmination of Hanami at the Garden, which celebrates the Japanese tradition of enjoying each moment of the cherry-blossom season, from first bud to full bloom to the petals that fall like pink snow to the ground.

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