Dwarf Flowering Dogwood Tree Varieties

Kousa dogwood zones 5 8.

Dwarf flowering dogwood tree varieties. Some of the tree and shrub dogwoods cornus kousa have a graceful spreading habit which provides sweeping branches of eye catching white or pink flower bracts. Native to china japan and korea the kousa dogwood cornus kousa is very similar to the flowering. The bright yellow late winter blooms of the cornelian cherry cornus mas start off the year in a cheery way. Cornus flowering cornus dogwood trees are grown for their showy coloured bracts in late spring and early summer.

You may also recognize it by its older now less commonly used names. A 20 to 30 foot tree that s draped in snow white or rosy pink flowers. Henry anise zones 7 9. The flowering dogwood is the most commonly planted due to its showy nature.

A 10 to 15 foot tree with a slender spread of bushy white flowers. The usda hardiness zones for this tree are 7 to 9. Of all the varieties of dogwood gardeners are most familiar with the flowering dogwood cornus. Other common names include mountain dogwood and western flowering dogwood.

Pacific dogwood cornus. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree it soon acquired a secondary name as the hound s tree while the fruits came to be known as dogberries or houndberries the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade alluding to hecate s hounds. The scientific name for this tree is cornus nuttallii. Lollipop crabapple zones 3 8.

15 popular types of dogwood. These include american dogwood florida dogwood white dogwood indian arrowwood white cornel cornelian tree false box and false boxwood. Shrubby cornus alba c. Flowering dogwood trees cornus florida and cornus kousa have large flower bracts in late spring to early summer that come in shades of white to rich pink.

Sanguinea are grown for their vivid winter stem colour while shrubby c mas the cornelian cherry is grown for its winter flowers and summer fruits. It is native to british columbia and washington. The name dog tree entered the english vocabulary before 1548 becoming dogwood by 1614. A 6 to 15 foot evergreen with soft pink flowers.

Dwarf flowering trees to plant in small spaces. The canadian bunchberry also known simply as bunchberry or dwarf cornel is. They are distinctive with four petal like bracts around the central flowers. Common dogwood cornus sanguinea.