I will admit right off that my favorite shrub is sagebrush. After that, I claim several other shrub species as favorites and at the top of that list is red osier dogwood. This dogwood is a ...

The image most people have of a dogwood is that of a small tree with beautiful white or pink flowers that bloom in the early spring — the flowering dogwood ...

um, and we’re talking about red osier dogwood or red twig dogwood. and you can see on this, uh, this one right here, it’s got some really, really nice red color in the winter time.

A: That sounds like red-twig dogwood alright. This plant is in the same family as the much better known dogwood trees (Cornus), except these grow as multi-stem shrubs in the 6- to 8-foot range.

“I have a red twig dogwood shrub I planted at least two years ago in my backyard that tends to be moist and shaded by some adjacent trees. It has only grown to about 3 feet tall and has thin ...