The straight species are often used for large areas, where they can form dense thickets. Smaller varieties are great for rain ...

Growing tips for tree dogwoods: The stunning bracts and structure of these dogwoods make a perfect accent in the garden. Use them as a specimen or plant in small groups near a sidewalk or patio for ...

The tree dogwoods include Chinese Kousa dogwood which is a small tree with large white bracts in spring featuring an upright habit with horizontal branching. It has edible fruit and attractive ...

Many native flowering dogwood blooms are gone, however there is another interesting dogwood now in full bloom. Kousa is a ...

Loved by plant experts yet frequently overlooked, these underrated trees will pep up your yard with their foliage, flowers ...

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida ... it's known for are actually four petal-like bracts that surround the real flowers. It makes a nice understory tree, preferring light shade, but can handle ...

Kousa Dogwood (non-native and later blooming), and Flowering Dogwood are common tree varieties that feature lovely spring blooms. What we see as petals are really bracts, a modified leaf that changes ...

Flower: Emerging before the leaves from the round, gray, winter buds, as a dense head of small, greenish-yellow flowers surrounded by 4 large, white (sometimes pink) petal-like bracts ... crucified ...

Potentially the most drought-tolerant of all flowering dogwood trees, Cherokee Brave is worth ... x 'KN30-8') support some of the largest floral bracts of all dogwoods, literally appearing ...

In the 1930s, area naturalists were suggesting that Quincy residents plant a dogwood tree, either pink or white. Mrs. Ward ...