Wordless Wednesday – Dogwood

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Eliza Waters
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62 Responses to Wordless Wednesday – Dogwood

  1. Gary A. McMahon's avatar Gary A. McMahon says:
    May 6, 2025 at 11:38 pm

    Tell me more about this variety when you get chance. Paradise had beautiful Dogwoods. There was the Pacific Coast variety, white flowers, not as many branches as the Eastern Dogwoods that were grown for landscaping yards. Usually grew along the shade/sun boundaries. My favorite Eastern was the Cherokee Chief, dark red flowers that faded to pink. All the white ones grew much faster than the pinks and reds. I guess white is dominant color, or something like that. I am nursing along five little Cherokee Chiefs right now….odd name, though.

    • Eliza Waters's avatar Eliza Waters says:
      May 7, 2025 at 10:38 am

      You know a lot about them, Gary. I believe white was the original color and then breeders started in with developing the pink and red mutations/sports. I find the pink/reds less vigorous and harder to blend into the rest of the landscape, the color hue is just off, so I stick to white ‘Cherokee Princess.’ The hybrids are resistant to anthracnose, which nearly wiped out the natives a decade or so ago, when many folks lost their older specimens.
      Hope your red ones thrive!

      • Gary A. McMahon's avatar Gary A. McMahon says:
        May 7, 2025 at 10:59 am

        Fascinating to me. I will have to check out the Cherokee Princess. Where we are now, they are hard to grow with the heat and all, but as the redwoods get a little bigger, I might be able to plant one on the eastern side of the trees…as long as we have water!

  2. cindy knoke's avatar cindy knoke says:
    May 7, 2025 at 2:03 am

    Oh yes! I am photographing them now. Stunning.

  3. Garden Bliss's avatar Garden Bliss says:
    May 7, 2025 at 2:07 am

    Wonderful white dogwood. I’ve only ever seen yellow or pink. Lovely.

  4. Mark Lanesbury's avatar Mark Lanesbury says:
    May 7, 2025 at 2:16 am

    White wonders to bolster the green 🤗❤️🙏

  5. Cathy's avatar Cathy says:
    May 7, 2025 at 3:03 am

    Very pretty. 😃 Can’t understand why it isn’t grown here.

  6. Tranature - quiet moments in nature's avatar Tranature - quiet moments in nature says:
    May 7, 2025 at 3:27 am

    These white dogwoods are so beautiful Eliza! 🤍 xxx

  7. Judy@NewEnglandGardenAndThread's avatar Judy@NewEnglandGardenAndThread says:
    May 7, 2025 at 7:07 am

    I’ve never seen a dogwood that didn’t make me smile and ooh and aah. This is no exception.

  8. shoreacres's avatar shoreacres says:
    May 7, 2025 at 9:55 am

    Once again, I’ve probably missed seeing our east Texas native dogwoods. Next year! These are lovely. Are the center and the petal accents actually as olive green as they appear, or is that a trick of my monitor?

  9. Audrey Driscoll's avatar Audrey Driscoll says:
    May 7, 2025 at 9:59 am

    Dogwoods are popular here in British Columbia. The Pacific dogwood is the official flower of BC. Local ones are in bloom now.

  10. krispeterson100's avatar krispeterson100 says:
    May 7, 2025 at 10:45 am

    They’re such lovely trees. I’ve never seen them here. My Sunset Western Garden Book devotes 2+ pages to them but none are even close to suitable to my climate even in terms of Sunset’s zonal categories. Thanks for sharing yours! Do you know why they’re called “dogwoods”? I’m just curious.

    https://krispgarden.blogspot.com/

    • Eliza Waters's avatar Eliza Waters says:
      May 7, 2025 at 6:15 pm

      Native to the eastern (mostly mid-Atlantic) region, they need a fair amount of water, I suspect, and prefer woodland edges (part shade), so wouldn’t like blistering heat, and certainly not the Santa Anas!
      The etymology is vague. The most believable is from dag-wood (daggers, arrows) as the stems grow very straight and would make good arrows and such.

  11. Dale's avatar Dale says:
    May 7, 2025 at 11:12 am

    Wonderful! You had dogwood and I had magnolia on mine 🙂

  12. LightWriters's avatar LightWriters says:
    May 7, 2025 at 11:20 am

    🤍💚💛🤩 wow!

  15. Debbie's avatar Debbie says:
    May 7, 2025 at 2:26 pm

    Ours have almost finished blooming, but I have to agree: the white ones this year were especially striking!

  16. Isha Garg's avatar Isha Garg says:
    May 7, 2025 at 3:44 pm

    Gorgeous blooms, Eliza! Serenity in a photo.

  17. Steve Schwartzman's avatar Steve Schwartzman says:
    May 7, 2025 at 3:57 pm

    A good black and white color photograph.

  18. Murtagh's Meadow's avatar Murtagh's Meadow says:
    May 7, 2025 at 4:36 pm

    ohhh pretty

  19. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    May 7, 2025 at 6:11 pm

    Beautiful, Eliza.

  20. tomwhelan's avatar tomwhelan says:
    May 7, 2025 at 8:50 pm

    Lovely closeup! I have two dogwoods, both are flowering now.

  22. derrycats's avatar derrycats says:
    May 8, 2025 at 6:31 am

    Beautifully captured.

  23. Pepper's avatar Pepper says:
    May 8, 2025 at 1:36 pm

    Beautiful. 😊

  24. belindagroverphotography's avatar belindagroverphotography says:
    May 8, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    So pretty against the green!

  25. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    May 10, 2025 at 7:08 am

    Love the softness of the off-white color with the mellow green.

  26. Brian Skeys's avatar Brian Skeys says:
    May 11, 2025 at 5:51 am

    One of my favourite flowering shrubs

  27. Adele Brand's avatar Adele Brand says:
    May 11, 2025 at 11:50 am

    A pretty flower. We have wild dogwoods here but very different. Noted mostly for vivid red stems that give colour to the landscape when all the petals and flowers have gone.

  28. tanjabrittonwriter's avatar tanjabrittonwriter says:
    May 11, 2025 at 11:37 pm

    We lived in Indiana for a number of years and I remember the dogwoods in bloom. So beautiful.

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