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.

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As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. But, when do dogwoods bloom? They typically flower between early spring and early summer, ...

Dogwood trees are a common and beloved sight in local gardens. 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 ...

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering. I can happily report ...

Maybe you have been fortunate enough to spot a dogwood tree, or even a small grove of them, in full bloom on an Appalachian hillside in springtime. The ivory white flowers glow softly against the ...

This year, Old Man Winter wreaked havoc with many spring-flowering shrubs and trees, but out in the woods and in many gardens, the native dogwood tree, Cornus florida, ever faithful, defied the cold, ...

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 ...

As we approach June, it is time to highlight one of the best flowering trees for our local area: the dogwood. These trees’ brighten up our landscapes in May and June and offer additional interest in ...

Up above an orange patch of wild monkey flower, a purple finch sings its warbling song up in the ‘Mountain Moon’ dogwood tree. As the fullness of May comes to an end, the dogwoods bloom. Dogwood trees ...

Missouri made the flowering dogwood its state tree in 1955 due to the beauty of its flowers in the springtime. But in recent days, TikTok disagreed with that choice. “I think the Missouri state tree, ...

In the 1930s, area naturalists were suggesting that Quincy residents plant a dogwood tree, either pink or white. Mrs. Ward Best, president of the Garden Club at that time, encouraged the club members ...