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
• The most visible wildflowers were the large, white blossoms of the flowering dogwood along the state park road.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Myth #3: Native plants look weedy Tell that to a flowering dogwood, a nice, big clump of snow trillium (Trillium nivale), or a patch of lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule).
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024