Flowering dogwood tree

Caring for a Dogwood Tree? — Our Guide with Tips (that Work)

These small trees add flowers, fall color, and even colorful fruit or interesting bark without taking up a lot of space.

Dogwood trees are well-known and revered for their beautiful pink, white or reddish flowers. As they come into full bloom in early to mid-spring, they can light up a landscape like no other tree. And when it comes to planting & maintaining dogwoods in your landscape, a few key tips can go a long way to keeping your trees growing healthy and strong, year after year. We've got you covered here with all you need to know about planting & maintaining dogwood trees this year!

Cornus Kousa or Chinese Dogwood is an outstanding tree with incredible summer flowers and outstanding horizontal branching habit. Consider planting our native Flowering Dogwood before planting one of these non-native trees. Or, plant them together for a spectacular display from spring through summer. The Cornus Kousa works as well in a woodland garden as it does a specimen tree in the Japanese garden. #Dogwood #backyard #landscape #tree Flowering tree | landscaping tips | backyard ideas

Dogwood trees maygrow naturally on your homestead, but if they don't, we tell you how to plant and take care of them.

Learn the basics to growing a flowering dogwood tree. Follow these gardening tips to learn the benefits of growing flowering dogwood trees. #gardeningchannel #gardening #floweringtree #dogwoodtree

In the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods. But more than any other tree, for us they herald spring. Flowering dogwoods make an impact in your yard all year long, from flowers in spring to bursts of red in fall. At the link, learn how to select, grow, and care for this all-season beauty—the flowering dogwood tree. #dogwoodtree #trees…

Plant images and details for Cornus florida - Flowering Dogwood.

See how to plant dogwood trees and add incredible 4 season interest to your landscape! Learn the secrets to success for healthy dogwoods.

The dogwood tree planted too close to the garage.... still beautiful!

A white dogwood tree in full bloom at Ritter Park in Huntington, WV.

Discover everything you need to know about a variety of beautiful Dogwood trees. In the early summer, the Evergreen Dogwood produces elegant white to creamy-yellow flowers throughout its canopy. In the fall, reddish fruit that look somewhat like strawberries appear, which the birds love feasting on. #dogwood tree #white dogwood #trees #front yard

Arbor Day trees: 3 White Flowering Dogwoods, 3 American Redbuds, 2 Sargent Crabapples, 2 Washington Hawthorns

Dogwood tree at my friends house

We have another dogwood! This one's not a native - it's a Kousa Dogwood, also known as a Japanese Flowering Dogwood. This looks like a flower, but it's actually a bract. Now - in most cases, I prefer native plants. They're better suited to the local environment, they're usually more pest resistant than exotic plants, and they provide valuable shelter for local wildlife. However, I'm not one of those people who insists on only having native plants, so I won't be digging up this lovely tree…

The dogwood tree is prolific showcasing most of the year with coloful flowers, leaves, and berries. Plus, a list of companion plants.