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

One of the nicest flowering dogwood trees is in Oak Cliff ... Late summer shows white seed pods that the birds love, and then purple fall color. Stems are reddish and very decorative in winter.

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

The only other dogwood tree I have seen locally is in the garden ... especially noticeable when leafless in winter. These stems grow up to 15-feet tall in an aggressively spreading, rhizomatous ...

Dogwood trees are a common and beloved sight in local gardens. While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood ...

You might drive right past and never realize – flowering in the center of a small cemetery, hidden down the rural roads of North Carolina – is the largest dogwood tree in America, and possibly ...