Rutgers holds a patent on the trees, with about 40,000 Scarlet Fire dogwoods sold each year. The university earns $2.25 per tree. New varieties like Stellar Nova and Eternal Scarlet are now being ...

Under the dappled shadow of old shade trees that are beginning to leaf ... is one of the few pink flowering dogwoods that is reliably free of disease. Among pure Cornus florida varieties, Cherokee ...

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 florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

(Rick Wetherbee) When dogwood erupts in an explosion of pink, white or red ... this timeless tree brings a lot of attraction to the landscape. Dogwoods come in all shapes and sizes, from a hardy ...

They sport the classic rounded, four-petal flower in either pink or white and also ... so be sure to irrigate trees a bit in dry summer months. Dogwoods are not heavy feeders by any means, but ...

Some pink trees, like dogwoods and cherry blossoms, are early bloomers, adding a jolt of life to your garden while your annuals may still be getting settled. “Flowering trees are a two-for-one ...

The original tree is now 16 years old. Thomas Molnar, who leads the breeding program, says the goal of creating a pink kousa dogwood has been decades in the making. The trees are disease-resistant ...