Available in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, the dogwood tree adds structure and color to the landscape for most of the year. The show begins with four-petal blooms from spring into ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods. But more ...

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.

The blooming of the dogwood trees is the harbinger of spring. Whereas the calendar can lie and give us late snows or early frosts, the dogwoods don’t bloom until they’re good and ready to be sprung.