GREAT AMERICANS: DOGWOOD
Eco-gardening is at its best in The Monday Garden
May 9, 2004, Issue 111
GREAT AMERICANS: DOGWOOD
May was once known here as the “Flowering Moon”. Flowering shrubs enjoyed in pre-Columbian times included shad (serviceberry), crabapple, and our wonderful flowering dogwood (cornus floridia).
picture: a classic cornus florida in full flower, Revonah, Stamford CT. May 2004
Ah, flowering dogwood, so photogenic and needing such little care if properly situated and well established – no pruning, spraying, raking. Cornus florida’s native range extends from Ontario to Mexico; and it’s North Carolina’s state flower. Horticulturists say that flowering dogwood “almost over used” locally but who’s complaining?
Certainly not the birds and bees.