DOGWOOD TREE FACTSAmericans’ love for the dogwood was inspired by two of our founding fathers. George Washington planted dogwoods at Mount Vernon, obtaining many of his trees from the surrounding forest. Thomas Jefferson planted dogwoods at Monticello in the late 1770s, which inspired Virginia ...
The flowering dogwood, or Cornus florida, grows across most of the United States and in the milder regions of southern Canada. Classified as an understory tree, it typically grows 25 to 30 feet in height beneath the forest canopy and produces abundant white flowers through spring and early summ...
Look at the tree’s form to identify it. The Satomi dogwood has a broad, sweeping form with horizontal spreading branches, the lavender twist weeping redbud has an umbrella-shaped crown with weeping, twisted branches, and the Eastern redbud has a rounded canopy. The tree peony is upright and...
growing 35 to 40 feet tall with a spread of 20 to 40 feet. Native to Japan and China, it produces flattened clusters of creamy-white flowers in May and June, giving way to bluish-black fruit that ripens in late summer. The fall foliage is not notable. Giant dogwood is normally ...