In the nursery and landscape industries, flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), and their hybrids are the most popular and economically significant members of the genus ...

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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 (Cornus ...

Garden lovers and horticulturalists now have two new species names to add to their vocabulary and memory. The world's most commercially successful dogwood garden trees have finally received proper ...

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Creamy white bracts and variegated leaves edged in a creamy white are the hallmarks of this Kousa dogwood. (Rick Wetherbee) When dogwood erupts in an explosion of pink, white or red flowers on its ...

Q: I recently removed a dead Yoshino cherry tree. I am looking to replace it with a native tree. What do you recommend? Peggy Nordstrom, email A: I love kousa dogwoods, Cornus kousa, which are ...

Recent progress has been made in developing dogwoods that resist disease -- especially anthracnose and other fungal attackers. The following update is from Tom Ranney, professor of horticultural ...

My garden has some red-twig dogwoods that are very large and have very little color in their stems. These are supposed to be good plants for winter interest. Should I give up and remove them to plant ...

Three new ornamental dogwood varieties that are resistant to powdery mildew and dogwood anthracnose have been introduced by reserachers. 'Empire' is a brilliant, white-bracted kousa dogwood with a ...