NATIVE DOGWOOD blossoms used to define spring in Northwest gardens. Pacific dogwoods (Cornus nuttallii) bloomed snowy white against the deep-green backdrop of firs and cedars in my big, woodsy ...

It begins in early April when our native Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, starts to flower, followed by the Eastern flowering dogwood, C. florida and finishing in June with the kousa dogwood, C ...

I'm speaking of the glorious flowering dogwood, Cornus florida. The West Coast has its own version, the Pacific dogwood, or Cornus nuttallii , which lives west of the Rockies, between southern ...

Dogwood (botanical genus Cornus) goes well beyond our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) to include South American and Siberian shrubs, North American groundcovers and European and Asian trees.

I asked Gary Handy, of Handy Nursery Company in Boring, Ore., where they’ve been playing around with dogwood genetics since the 1950s. Handy is a big fan of Asian, or Korean, dogwoods (Cornus ...

Korean dogwoods (Cornus kousa) ... (Cornus nuttallii) to create varieties such as Venus and Starlight, which have huge flowers that measure 6 inches across.

Next came an even more challenging project: Cross Cornus kousa with Cornus nuttallii, a Pacific Coast species not reliably winter hardy in the Northeast. These produced the spectacular 'Venus' and ...

The first to bloom is our native dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, with extremely large flowers. But, unfortunately, it is very disease-prone and rarely found in the trade anymore.

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In the early 1950s, the late H.M. Eddie bred today’s “Eddie’s White Wonder” (zone 5), a cross between nuttallii and Cornus florida (our eastern dogwood).