Over the weekend — as a one of many gardening-related Mother’s Day presents to myself — I planted seven bunchberry plants, just babies in 4-inch pots. Also known as Cornus canadensis or Cornus ...

Maybe you have been fortunate enough to spot a dogwood tree, or even a small grove of them, in full bloom on an Appalachian hillside in springtime. The ivory white flowers glow softly against the ...

The fastest flower in the west, or anywhere else, is a woodland wildflower of North America called bunchberry dogwood, says a research team with a really fast camera. A bunchberry dogwood (Cornus ...

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) is a gorgeous, low-growing species of dogwood that thrives in the shade and tolerates almost ...

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Dwarf dogwoods (Cornus subg. Arctocrania) comprise a species complex that exhibits considerable intermediacy between two morphological extremes. To investigate whether distinct species can be ...

India has the majestic Lotus. The U.S. chose the rose. But Canada has no flower to officially call its own. The Masters Gardeners of Ontario hope to change that, having worked for months to pick a ...

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