Ideally, you’d be reading this in very early spring, when the dogwood bloom is beginning to work its elegant magic in the older neighborhoods fanning out from lower Bidwell Park and downtown Chico.

Available in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, the dogwood tree adds structure and color to the landscape for most of the year. The show begins with four-petal blooms from spring into ...

Dogwood trees have a lot going for them. Showy spring flowers? Check. A compact, yard-friendly size? Check. Plenty of nutritious berries to support birds? Yes, please. It’s no wonder that a 2004 Arbor ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods. But more ...

For a pop of cheery, pollinator-attracting color in your garden during springtime, consider planting this lesser-known ...

I heard a wake-up call, loud and clear, last summer. I was part of a group touring a garden in Connecticut, and we were gathered round a handsome kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) in full bloom. Various ...

In 1947, the respected journalist John Gunther described Knoxville as the “ugliest city I ever saw in America, with the possible exception of some mill towns in New England.” Those words, as much as ...

We asked garden experts to share their favorite fast-growing shrub that pulls double duty with thick foliage that blocks the neighbors and attracts birds, bees, and other beneficial pollinators. They ...

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