A PLANT FOR ANY GARDENER: Dogwoods are low-maintenance plants that don’t require much care once they’re established. (National Garden Bureau) Growing tips for shrub dogwoods: The straight species are ...

Wow, weren't the dogwoods gorgeous this year? I think their bracts had more color intensity and were larger than normal because of all of the spring moisture. Unfortunately most of the dogwood ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Flowering dogwood is the state tree of Virginia and Missouri and the state ...

Now is a good time to both care for and plant one of our most beloved native trees. Flowering dogwood is one of the most popular and showy small flowering trees in Eastern North America. It however ...

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, ...

Up above an orange patch of wild monkey flower, a purple finch sings its warbling song up in the ‘Mountain Moon’ dogwood tree. As the fullness of May comes to an end, the dogwoods bloom. Dogwood trees ...

Q. Have you heard anything from folks with dogwood issues? We’ve had dogwoods in our yard for over 30 years. For some reason, several of ours seemed to be struggling. This past fall, the leaves were ...

The fall season has many people stocking up on mums and pumpkins for our gardens, but it is already time to start thinking about your dogwood trees. Hundreds of dogwood trees will soon be planted in ...