Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and ...

While these trees might seem immune to disease, it's thought that the kousa dogwood is actually responsible for spreading the fungal disease dogwood anthracnose to native dogwood species.

Walter Reeves answers Atlanta-area lawn and garden questions, including good options for a native tree, and how to deal with camellias that might have a virus.

While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

I heard a wake-up call, loud and clear, last summer. I was part of a group touring a garden in Connecticut, and we were gathered round a handsome kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) in full bloom. Various ...

Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry to the giant dogwood, which can reach 60 feet.

Kousa dogwood fruit Dogwood trees are well noted for their seasonal display of showy spring blooms and fall leaf color. However, these trees have a dual purpose of not only providing blooms and ...

Unfortunately, Kousa dogwoods, and their hybrids have not done well in our climate. The best hope we have is that resistant flowering dogwood cultivars will be developed for our area.

Q: I just planted a 4-foot-tall kousa dogwood in a slightly raised bed. Do you have any plant suggestions I can put in around it that will not hurt the roots?

Small trees make good screening along a fence. Some good ones for sun include Kousa and Rutgers hybrid dogwoods, American fringetree, serviceberry, crape myrtle, dwarf magnolias and seven-son flower.

One of the most serious problems a dogwood can face is a disease that could potentially kill the tree in one year. Anthracnose, or old man’s disease, is a one that destroys the circulatory ...

As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as ...