Flowering Dogwood (Cornus Florida)

The flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is a popular, small, deciduous ornamental tree native to Eastern North America, cherished for its spectacular spring bloom of showy white or pink bracts and vivid red fall foliage. Typically grows 15 to 30 feet tall with a similar width. 

A member of the Cornaceae family, 85 species of shrubs & small tree, including Cornelian Cherry & Japanese Laurel.

courtesy: Wildflower.org
Sometimes considered the most spectacular of the native, flowering trees, flowering dogwood is a 20-40 ft., sometimes taller, single- or multi-trunked tree with a spreading crown and long-lasting, showy, white and pink spring blooms. A lovely, small, flowering tree with short trunk and crown of spreading or nearly horizontal branches. Graceful, horizontal-tiered branching; red fruits; and scarlet-red fall foliage are other landscape attributes. Flowering dogwood is deciduous

Acquired Nov.18 - Cost: $8.00

This little tree "came in the mail", directly from the breeder/grower & is probably 9-12 months old. If you're interested, you can see the process of unpacking, soaking & potting at Unpacking 2 New Trees .


This is what he looked like when I took him out of the packaging; you can enlarge this photo by "click"-ing on it (as with all photos on my blog)



This is what he looks like today, You can't see in this pic,  but the growing tip is forming & I'm pretty sure he's going to live, so, going forward, this Photo/History page will hopefully document his long & colorful life here on the patio. 








April 2026

5 months & waiting, the Dogwood still has not produced any foliage or shoots or show any life..'come's a time'..The breeder/grower is shipping a replacement & should be here before week's end.

April 11


Packaged in a cardboard tube, wrapped in plastic to conserve moisture, the replacement tree arrived today. Shipped on Monday, he has been in-transit for 6 days, so as soon as I unpacked him, put him in a jar of water to rehydrate..we'll let him soak overnight. 




April 12

Potted the Dogwood seedling/sapling (in the rain) as we are having classic "April showers" today..As you can see from the photo, he actually has 3-4 leaves, so I have some confidence that this young tree will live & develop.

I've lost 5 months "grow-time" waiting patiently for his predecessor, let's hope this little guy will put-on some foliage & catch-up with our early spring calendar, this year.