These trees are quite popular as understories in more heavily wooded areas, where their nearly 30-foot-tall and slightly wider frame fits easily. Pink Flowering Dogwoods Produce Bird-Attracting ...

The kousa dogwood tree is among one of the shorter types of ... It's known for its four-petaled flowers ranging in color from white to light pink, as well as its large red berries.

Gardening author and podcast host Kathy Jentz praises the beauty of the blooms. "The flowers are borne on long branches in ...

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).

Other excellent summer tree and shrub options include buttonbush, smooth and panicle hydrangeas, smokebush, rose of Sharon, Bluebeard and mock orange.

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 ...

Pink dogwoods occur naturally and have been given ... rosy-red bracts on a semi-dwarf tree. Several other cultivars lighter pink in color are commercially available. Other dogwood cultivars ...

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 ...

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 ...