Dwarf Flowering Dogwood Tree Varieties
Barbara gillette is a master gardener herbalist beekeeper and journalist with decades of experience propagating and growing fruits vegetables herbs and ornamentals.
Dwarf flowering dogwood tree varieties. The dwarf dogwood poncho is a japanese dogwood that only grows to 8 10 ft unlike an american dogwood which can reach heights of 25 ft. It has a beautiful four petaled white or pink flowers sprinkled across a full growing crown making it one of the best flowering plants you can grow. The species is a 15 to 30 foot tree that blooms with white flowers in april and may but several variations and cultivars offer pink flowers including. One of the most popular of all flowering trees is the flowering dogwood.
Learn about the spruce s review board. Of all the varieties of dogwood gardeners are most familiar with the flowering dogwood cornus florida. Barbara gillette reviewed on 03 21 20 by. Dogwood cherokee brave dogwood cherokee brave cornus florida is an original flowering dogwood and an easygoing small tree.
This 4 to 8 inch tall. Cornus florida is a north american native. A seriously small cultivar the dwarf dogwood cornus canadensis has many of the traits of a traditional dogwood although it s not not actually a tree but a ground cover. This beautiful tree is interesting all year with pink or white flowers in late winter or early spring followed by.
Let s look at the four different types of dogwood trees best suited to cultivated landscapes.