Dogwood flower buds look different. They are small, gray-green and shaped like onions with four distinct sections. Each of these sections expands and unfurls into large, showy white bracts when ...

Through the vistas of newly leafing oaks and maples, the horizontal sprays of gleaming white dogwood blossoms ... young chartreuse leaves of oak. Dogwood buds have a growth pattern that starts ...

Almost all pink, and most of the white, cultivars of dogwood are grafted plants – i.e., the bud for the desired pink or white flower is attached (grafted) to the roots (rootstock) of a seedling ...

Q: We have a white dogwood ... when the buds start to show color in the spring, then as directed on the package. I found a few other regularly occurring mold problems on dogwood trees.

Why it’s choice: Bunchberry, the ground-cover member of the dogwood family ... a tiny antenna projecting from one petal of an unopened bud. When the pollen is ripe, an insect flying by will ...