When you plant pretty trees with pink and white flowers in your backyard, the spring air fills with their sweet scent and ...

There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering. I can ...

Eastern or flowering dogwoods usually have white bracts, but this variety, known as Cherokee Chief, has bracts that are rosy red. A week ago, I wrote about certain trees and shrubs requiring a ...