Some trees just don’t follow the rules. Case in point, the alternate leaved dogwood.As Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee explains, this native tree has an alternate leaf arrangement unlike its ...

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.

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 ...

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.