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 ...

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, ...

Native flowering dogwood blooms are gone, but the tree’s cousin, the Kousa dogwood, is now in peak bloom. Native to China, kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) is a showy, flowering tree that leafs out before ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) ...

While our native dogwood requires partial shade and cool soils, the Kousa dogwood can tolerate full-sun conditions, so it can be located in a prominent location. Q. I've been researching shrubs with ...

I noticed a dogwood blooming downtown recently and wondered if this was a fluke or if there was a variety that blooms later or longer? This year it seemed like there were not many dogwoods blooming at ...

Last year, I came upon the most beautiful kousa dogwood in full bloom. I muttered to myself that if everyone could see it they would know why I put it high on my list. While I am partial to the native ...

The dogwood tree is ubiquitous in the United States, and there are at least 50 known species. Varieties range in size from smaller shrubs to large flowering trees with white or yellow blooms that ...

The soft, pinkish red of Kousa dogwood fruits, some still hanging on trees, does hint at luscious flavor. Some people see their shape as something like a combination of strawberry and raspberry, which ...

I had a reader ask this week why her native dogwoods were suffering so. There are a few reasons for this, and none of them are good. I remember 25 years ago when I was in graduate school and a primary ...

In terms of scenic signs of spring in the Ozarks, eastern redbud trees and flowering dogwoods are at the top of most people's lists. Regardless of what your level of outdoors interest is, you'll ...