When Oscar and I moved to our current home, four small dogwoods were growing in the landscape. Each spring, the woodlands around our home are dotted with lovely, creamy white dogwood blossoms. Dogwood ...

Buying a plant or tree that propagates easily in water is truly the gift that keeps on giving. All you need to do is buy the plant once, and then you're free to create nearly endless copies of it.

Nutrient deficiencies are among the many reasons your flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) may not be thriving. Of the 17 nutrients your trees need, six are considered macronutrients because of the ...

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 ...

Although some tree specialists claim they are incapable of growing successfully in central Nebraska, for the past 20-25 years, ours have performed exceptionally well. We’ve done little to aid their ...

Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

Q: I have a dogwood tree that is about 20 years old. It did not bloom this year but has green leaves. Has it reached its life expectancy? Janice Rowe, Monroe A: In perfect growing circumstances, a ...