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| Articles about Dogwood |
| Pink Flowering Dogwood | | 2008-05-01 04:30:41 | | Pink Flowering DogwoodCornus florida var. rubra(KOR-nus) (FLOR-ih-duh)When we visited the farm on Sunday they had two pink Dogwoods planted in the circular driveway. I really fell in love with this one. It has the deepest color I have seen this season. The Dogwood was also beautiful but not like this one. My guess is that this is ‘Cherokee Chief’ but it had an even deeper color than they usually do.We got the job at the farm and I am looking forward to working with the owner. I was working at the other farm yesterday and the garden has come alive there. We put in 20 new roses and overall the rose garden looks good. There are a couple of roses that are struggling and they have another week or two to get their act together before they get the ax.I am starting a big job in Greenwich, Connecticut today. There is always a little anxiety before plunging in. The owner seems very nice with a genuine desire to have a nice garden.I happened to notice this Hoover Fly when I went to take a pic... | | By: Digital Flower Pictures.com | | |
| | White Dogwood Trees (Cornus Florida) | | 2008-04-27 12:55:00 | | Yesterday I planted two White Dogwood trees. We are trying to add new landscaping features to our large yard this year so it doesn't look like a huge open football field around the house. Planting trees, shrubs and flowers can be a rather simple home improvement project that can add significant curb appeal and value to your home.The Arbor Day Foundation has this to say about the White Dogwood Tree:An excellent landscape choice in all four seasons. Flowers are showy in spring. Leaves turn red-purple in fall. Glossy red fruits attract winter songbirds. Likes partial shade; moist, acid, well-drained soil. Grows to 25', 25' spread. (zones 5-9)This should be another great fit for our yard due to the acidic soil. We also have a well drained soil because just below the soil layer is a very deep layer of clean sand. Hopefully these two trees will mature quickly and provide great flowers in the spring and shade in the summer.Tags: Home Improvement, Home Improvement Blog, White Dogwood Tree... | | By: Helpful Advice for Home Construction Improvement | | |
| | White Flowering Dogwood | | 2008-04-24 04:31:17 | | White Flowering DogwoodCornus florida 'Cherokee Princess'Our Molly dog went to heaven yesterday. As much as that hurts it was quite obvious that it was time to help her along. We stayed up with her the night before and her breathing was labored and shallow. She actually stopped breathing a couple of times only to start again. When she stopped drinking that was kind of a benchmark for me. We decided to call her doctor to see if we could ease her discomfort and he came yesterday morning. I have been real sad but at the same time relived that Molly is not struggling anymore. Our other dog, Ruby Tuesday the Border Collie, is stunned. She is 4 years old now and they were like sisters. I am thankful I still have a dog.Siberian Huskies by nature are fun loving, carefree, curious, and free spirited. Molly had all those qualities in abundance. She had many other attributes that made her, as her doctor said, ‘exceptional’. I was kidding him saying that he probably said that about all dogs bu... | | By: Digital Flower Pictures.com | | |
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| ABC Wednesday - Kousa Dogwood | | 2008-04-02 06:22:08 | | ABC Wednesday - KKousa DogwoodCornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’Oriental or Japanese Dogwood is one of my favorite trees. Not only is it beautiful it has almost none of the cultural problems associated with our native Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida. There are many cultivars of Kousa each with it special attributes but all have wonderful flowers, unusual fruit, exfoliating bark and good fall color. There seems to a little confusion on some of the cultivars as they maybe from the same gene pool.This particular cultivar, ‘Ed Mezitt’, is named after the founder of Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, Mass. The flowers are a little bigger than the species and the new growth emerges with a purplish tinge to it. It is a stately tree that grows with a beautiful shape. I have had one in the Estate’s Kousa collection since 1995 and it was fairly large to begin with. Pink Kousa Dogwood was the very first flower picture featured on Digital Flower Pictures.com.The fruit of the Kousa Dogwood is a show ... | | By: Digital Flower Pictures.com | | |
| | Signs of Spring - Dogwood | | 2008-03-28 08:17:38 | | The Azalea Dogwood Festival is this weekend. The Dogwood is one of the star attractions. Don’t miss the opportunity to take a ride through some of Dothan’s most beautiful neighborhoods and enjoy the natural beauty our area has to offer.
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Interested in living along the Azalea Dogwood Trail? [...]... | | By: Dothan Home Search | | |
| | Annual Azalea Dogwood Trail this Sunday | | 2008-03-25 14:24:21 | | The Azalea Dogwood Festival marks the annual return of spring to the Dothan area. We have been posting over the past week or so some beautiful pictures of trees and shrubs that are blooming around the area right now. This Sunday, March 30, you can see them first hand by following the 44th Annual Azalea [...]... | | By: Dothan Home Search | | |
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| ABC Wednesday - Y is for Yellowtwig Dogwood | | 2008-01-09 07:35:41 | | Yellowtwig Dogwood
Cornus sericea 'Flaviramea'
(KOR-nus) (ser-IK-ee-uh)
Synonyms: Yellowstem Dogwood, Golden Twig Dogwood
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When I took these pictures about a month ago I thought that it would be a good ‘Y’ post. Yellowtwig Dogwood is a favorite winter plant of mine. I love to see it in masses and I often plant it with... | | By: Digital Flower Pictures.com | | |
| | Weeping Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida 'Pendula') | | 2007-05-03 11:28:00 | | Weeping Flowering DogwoodCornus florida 'Pendula'(KOR-nus) (FLOR-id-uh)CornaceaeI wouldn’t wish this tree on anybody with a small garden. No matter what I spray it with or how many times I spray it, it still gets fungusy, and looks like heck by summer. Sometimes it is even earlier than summer. I am sure that this is probably caused by something I am doing and is probably not the tree. It does have an interesting winter outline and for brief time in the spring, when it flowers you remember why you are growing it. It started out its career a little light on the flowering but pretty much flowers heavily every year now. It has been in the garden for about 10 years and it wasn’t that small when I planted it either. I much prefer the two Weeping Kousa dogwoods I have in the same garden. This tree is still a Dogwood and that always commands respect from me. I think it is one of the aristocrats of the flowering trees. It is just that this particular form is odd.I also snapped this pictur... | | By: Digital Flower Pictures.com | | |
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