We often recognize dogwoods by their showy flowers, but what we call “flowers” are actually bracts, or connected, modified leaves that resemble petals. As The Southern Living Garden Book describes, ...

As some of my regular readers may know, I live in my childhood home - the place where four children, two parents, and many cats and a dog lived, loved and laughed. Today, it still remains a safe ...

I heard a wake-up call, loud and clear, last summer. I was part of a group touring a garden in Connecticut, and we were gathered round a handsome kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) in full bloom. Various ...

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Maybe you have been fortunate enough to spot a dogwood tree, or even a small grove of them, in full bloom on an Appalachian hillside in springtime. The ivory white flowers glow softly against the ...

Dogwood trees are well noted for their seasonal display of showy spring blooms and fall leaf color. However, these trees have a dual purpose of not only providing blooms and fall color but also an ...

Midway through spring, we are not quite midway through the flowering dogwood season, when three Cornus species in succession decorate the garden with their splashy blooms. Other dogwoods, trees and ...

FAIRFIELD -- The much-celebrated and often sickly dogwood will have its usual display of blooms when the Dogwood Festival gets under way in Fairfield this weekend. But this won't likely be a banner ...

“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope.” – Nitya Rao. Growing tips for shrub dogwoods: The straight species are often used for large areas, where they can form dense ...

Dogwoods can be one of our best flowering plants. I can remember seeing rows of them flowering in concert with an understory of azaleas lining our suburban streets. It was a site to behold. Sometimes ...