Cornus nuttallii and Cornus florida (western or Pacific dogwood and the eastern or Florida dogwood)
The western and eastern dogwood trees are native to North America but they are grown in temperate gardens all over the world. Look in anyone's back garden and you'll see globalization in action - the United Nations of horticulture. I have flowers from six continents in my small corner of Planet Earth. Everybody seems to get along. The petty squabbles of human politics are left behind at the garden gate.
As you can see from the first photo, dogwood blooms are actually like a community of small flowers. For example, this pink eastern dogwood typically has 20 little flowers clustered in the middle. If you look closely. each tiny flower has it's own equally tiny petals. By surrounding this 'village' with larger petal-like bracts, the dogwood saves energy, maximizing it's reproductive potential with minimum effort.
Incidentally, the Pacific dogwood is the official provincial flower of British Columbia and the eastern dogwood is the state flower of Virginia, Missouri and North Carolina.
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Pretty Doggy
Watercolor On Black Paper
2023, 12"x 9"
White Dogwood Blossoms
Private Collection
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The neighbors’ dogwood tree this morning.
For @srobrien2 .
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Dogwood blooms in NC... perhaps my favorite tree of all time...
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Pink dogwood tree blossoms. Photos by me!
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The pictures don't really show how dark it was.
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Puppy Love
Watercolor On Birch Panel
2023, 24"x 18"
Red Dogwood Blossoms
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It’s Iris time and I’m trying to not hyperventilate! OMG so beautiful this time of year with the Dogwoods and Phlox to compliment the Iris.
This particular Iris always blooms first. It smells like GRAPES! Seriously, it is really strong and really smells like a fruit :)
I’m trying to block the heat pump with the last clump and it’s doing quite the job of expanding nicely.
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White Dogwood Blossoms on a Tree.
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