Some trees just don’t follow the rules. Case in point, the alternate leaved dogwood. As Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee explains, this native tree has an alternate leaf arrangement unlike its ...

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How do you tell a dogwood? By its bark.” The Batavia Plain Dirt Gardeners November meeting will focus on winter tree identification presented by Jack Shouba. Jack Shouba, ...

Flowering dogwood trees are enormously popular. Their large blooms help usher in spring, making them a feast for the eyes and perhaps help secure a place as Missouri's state tree. What many people do ...

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

In 1947, the respected journalist John Gunther described Knoxville as the “ugliest city I ever saw in America, with the possible exception of some mill towns in New England.” Those words, as much as ...

New Haven has its cherry blossoms, Meriden its daffodils and Hartford is known for the hundreds of rose bushes at Elizabeth Park. Fairfield's long floral heritage continued over the weekend with a ...