Ah, the middle of spring. Like most gardeners, I’ve been daydreaming about this time of the year since last fall, planning new beds and considering new plants to try. So once the rain tapers off and ...

I've been seeing some really nice bushes with red branches that stick up from the ground. A friend told me they're red-twig dogwoods. Are they very easy to grow? Red-twigs are at their best in winter ...

• The red-twig dogwood (Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’), also known as the cream-edge Tatarian dogwood, is a pleasant shrub that offers so much to central Ohio gardens. The 21/2-inch medium gray-green ...

If you are longing for some color in your winter garden, consider planting a red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea). Its bare, vibrant-red stems look beautiful against a curtain of evergreens or a snowy ...

Red twig dogwoods are tough plants. Equally happy in well-drained soil or clay, they can withstand drenched conditions in spring, yet are drought tolerant as a rock, needing little if any water, even ...

It was the first day of spring, and it was snowing. Again. The strong horizontal branches of the dogwood outside my window looked like an abstract Christmas tree, coated as they were with heavy, white ...

LET’S HEAD TO GIRL GREEN. WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROW AT GREEN. WE’RE AT THE PRESCOTT FARM ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER IN LACONIA, AND I’M JOINED BY SEAN O’BRIEN FROM UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. AND ...

“I have a red twig dogwood shrub I planted at least two years ago in my backyard that tends to be moist and shaded by some adjacent trees. It has only grown to about 3 feet tall and has thin foliage.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Flowering dogwood is the state tree of Virginia and Missouri and the state ...

Here's PennLive garden writer George Weigel's Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * Common name: Dogwood 'Cherokee Chief' * Botanical name: Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief' * What it is: Dogwoods are ...