How to Use flowering dogwood in a Sentence

flowering dogwood

noun
  • Two hang in a flowering dogwood in the front yard and the rest are in trees or on poles in the back.
    Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Be sure to visit in the spring for the flowering dogwood blooms.
    Dallas News, 24 May 2021
  • Often, flowering dogwoods for sale here were grown down South and aren’t hardy enough.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • There are many dogwood species, but no type is quite as popular in the South as the flowering dogwood.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
  • Some students were even lucky enough to be chosen to grab shovels to help fill the hole for the flowering dogwood placed near the school’s main entrance.
    Beth Mlady, cleveland, 19 May 2022
  • Hike more than 18 miles of trails through flowering dogwood and sweet gum trees (read: gorgeous fall color).
    Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
  • Image There are few trees as admired as the flowering dogwood.
    Dave Taft, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • This is about my neighbor’s white flowering dogwood tree.
    oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Add white flowering dogwood branches, Queen Anne’s Lace, spirea, and white flowers to a tall cylindrical vase that’s clear, white, or blue.
    Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This looks like Eastern flowering dogwood and these do have a tendency to get powdery mildew.
    oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • On a recent morning, the river's icy water, flanked by flowering dogwood trees and jagged rock formations, flowed fast and clean.
    Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 7 May 2018
  • Missouri The flowering dogwood, found in southern and central Missouri, is the state's official tree.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Just like our native flowering dogwood that has big, white, flouncy bracts that surround the true dogwood flowers that are greenish-yellow.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Some trees, such as black cherry, flowering dogwood and white oak, also begin to produce a pigment called anthocyanin each fall.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Officials decided to offer Japan a shipment of flowering dogwoods, native to the United States, with bright white blooms.
    National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Open-sided to decrease infection risk, the white tent sits primly in the courtyard, hugged on three sides by a flowering dogwood, a magnificent magnolia, and a Callery pear tree laden with snowy blooms.
    Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Come spring and summer, the surrounding landscaped gardens come alive with roses, hydrangeas, and flowering dogwood.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
  • The garden’s blooms include spirea, Japanese snowbell, flowering dogwood, lilacs, roses and much more.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 2 June 2022
  • The flowering dogwood is North Carolina's state flower.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Trees include redbud, river birch and white flowering dogwood.
    Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The Chinese dogwood is far more resistant to both dogwood anthracnose and powdery mildew that can plague the native flowering dogwood in some locations.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Clusters of crabapple, flowering dogwood and saucer magnolia trees have long drawn arboretum aficionados from far and wide.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • One of the best cultivars on the market today, this 20-foot-by-20-foot tree develops deep, glossy green leaves, brilliant white late spring floral displays that open with the leaves, a few weeks after our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida).
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Spring in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is nothing less than an endowment from the natural world: flowering dogwoods and pink redbuds, daffodils, crocuses and winter jasmine infuse the already verdant landscape.
    Colleen Creamer, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • If your site is shady, Wheeler suggests an Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) or flowering dogwood (Cornus florida).
    Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Other great alternatives include American plum, hawthorn, eastern redbud and Missouri’s state tree, the flowering dogwood.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Kentucky's locally native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) has inhabited much of the eastern portion of North America for millennia — long before any humans showed up.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Plenty of native species will also produce colorful flowers in spring, including serviceberry, flowering dogwood, and redbud.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
  • Some specific alternatives are Grey dogwood, flowering dogwood, southern arrowwood, and blackhaw viburnum.
    Lorena Villanueva-Almanza, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2020
  • For additional information on flowering dogwoods see: Landscape Plants - Cornus florida.
    oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023

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