Tomorrow is Arbor Day, the ideal time to plant a tree or three for a host of reasons – the soil is damp, the temperatures are warm but not broiling (yet), and more trees mean more shade, more oxygen ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) ...

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 ...

For all you nature lovers and green thumbs in Cary, there is an opportunity this March to get a free native tree for your yard. The My Tree, Our Tree program aims to help improve the environmental ...

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.