The pagoda was built as a temporary indoor display in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition’s Palace of Food Products. It was moved to the Japanese Tea Garden in 1916.

Thankfully, the tree is more attractive to pollinators than garden-munching animals like deer and rabbits. With their bushy blooms, tiered branches, and voluminous leaves, pagoda dogwoods provide ...

The garden is surrounded by a backdrop of Taxus baccata (yew) and specimen trees of Styphnolobium japonicum (the Japanese pagoda tree), rise up from the sunken gravel area and soften the impact of ...