A cheery glimpse of color on a gray and wintry day: That’s why we plant shrubs with bright bark. Colorful bark is a main feature of red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea subsp. sericea), Siberian dogwood ...

Q: I've had voles chew the bark off some of my trees in the past, and now I've noticed bark missing from two more trees - a Korean stewartia and a kousa dogwood. I'm not sure if it's voles doing the ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) ...

In 1918, the General Assembly declared the flowering dogwood as the state floral emblem. Almost four decades later, legislators also named it the state tree. As a result, Virginia is one of only a few ...