Dogwood is Blooming

The Dogwoods are blooming. There is so much going on at Purple Ranch right now. It is something new every day. It is truly an adventure just to walk around, see and smell all of nature at it's best. Until next time. Lavender Up![/img]

 

So very pretty, thank you for sharing...I can't wait until things up here start to bloom...

 

I don't know anything about dogwood. Is it a bush or a tree? Does it smell? How big will it be? It looks lovely.

 

Every spring I ask myself why don't I have a dogwood yet??

Oh well, I can enjoy your lovely pictures instead.

 

What is a Dogwood?

The dogwoods that we have are the Cornus Florida variety. They are trees growing 20 to 30 feet in height. Back home in Louisiana they grew taller than that. There is a fable about the dogwood. It was believed that the cross that Jesus was crucified on was made from the trunk of a dogwood, a very hard wood. The tree was believed to be extremely tall in his day. to ensure an end to the construction of crosses he dwarfed the tree and twisted it's branches. The flower of the dogwood symbolizes the crucifixion with the four petals representing the four points of the cross. The red splashes of color on each tip represents the blood shed. Pretty cool story. But then again it was told to me as a fable. Until next time. Lavender Up!

 

Thanks for the information, PRH. Then I've learned something new today too. I've got it's cousin, Cornus sibirica, in the garden. Only twigs yet, just as Eileen's.

 

Beautiful photos! Nice to see some signs of spring, we're still expecting snow Friday. :-|

 

Lovely pictures! Thanks. 1out of the 4 we planted made it. I love the story too.

 

Love that story,Mother use to tell that to us when we were young.I do love the dogwood.Lucky kuntrygal lives fairly close to the Dogwood Trails out of Tyler ,Texas.

 

Nice picture, question for you though, does your Dogwood turn a redish color (the stems)...we have a kind up here in Ontario that is a redish color and we use them in winter arrangements, i dont think that our bloom either like your's do, if they do bloom, it has to be really early in the Spring.

 

Penny, I guess you've got the sibirica-variety that we grow here. I found a nice photo in this link: http://www.gardenseeker.com/this_month/april.htm

 

Hey ya, that does look like the one that we have up here...great article too.