This week, we introduce the flowering dogwood or Cornus florida. This small native Indiana tree has beautiful white blossoms in the spring, and red to maroon foliage in the fall. It has opposite leaf ...

This time of year, everyone seems to be talking about Japan’s cherry blossoms, but a lesser-known bloom is blossoming much closer to home. Across the Ozark Mountains, flowering dogwood trees put ...

Dogwood Days: My Quixotic Effort to Nudge a Tree to Flower Each year, the plants in my yard do their stuff. Then there is my dogwood tree. By Bart Ziegler Updated June 27, 2013 11:59 am ET Share ...

Flowering Dogwood grows 20 to 35 feet tall and spreads 25 to 30 feet. It can be trained with one central trunk or as a multi-trunked tree. The flowers consist of four bracts below the small head ...

Serviceberry trees, sometimes called juneberries or saskatoons, offer snowy white flowers in the early spring, plus red-orange autumn leaves and fruit that may draw cedar waxwings and other ...