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Spring in the East would not be the same without Dogwood (Cornus Florida) flowers, and traditionally farmers would not plant their crops until they saw such flowers. This morning I went around our town and took the following pictures of pink, red, and white Dogwood flowers.
Pink Dogwood.
Pink Dogwood.
Red Dogwood.
Red Dogwood. Note the strange mutation on the right!
White Dogwood.
White Dogwood.
White Dogwood.
My favorite is the Pink Dogwood, which is slowly disappearing due to some disease. I could only find one tree today, although there may be others hidden elsewhere.
Pink Dogwood.
neihtn 
Wonderful captures! We used to have a pink one in our garden in MD.
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Lovely captures, Hien! Thank you for brightening my morning! 🙂
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You are welcome Donna! Thank you for commenting.
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Love the dog woods, you captured them beautifully.
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Thank you John!
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These are beautiful photos, and remind me of a dogwood outside my window when I lived in New Jersey, as a girl. Now, the dogwoods just don’t look right – the Western Dogwood usually has five or six petals (I know, actually bracts)! It’s strange!
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Five or six petals for a dogwood! In our yard we also have a Kousa Dogwood, said to originate from Korea. In bloom it is covered with flowers, smaller than the ones from Cornus Florida, and the colors are not as striking.
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Yes, I know the Kousa, and they’re pretty, but I still used to prefer the “regular” dogwood. So you see what I mean by feeling that more than four petals just isn’t what a dogwood should be! 😉
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beautiful…:-)
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Thank you!
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So beautiful – looks like you have lots of dogwood there. Sadly, our area lost a lot to anthracnose many years ago.
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Eliza, that is too bad about anthracnose. In our town, there is one street with a tree on almost every lot. Most of them are white, some are red, and both do well. People plant pink ones, and they seem to do well but eventually die out.
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Dear Hien; We love the dogwood flowers because the flowers look like clouds and last nearly a month.. Dung
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Yes, their layered branches have that effect. Over the years, the pink ones we planted eventually died, but a white one that we did not plant thrives in the woods at one corner of our property. 🙂
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So beautiful, thanks for sharing.
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My pleasure. Thank you very much!
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The pink Dogwood flowers are stunningly beautiful! I have only seen white. 🙂
Beautiful captures, Hien!
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The pink flowering ones are the most prized ones. Those with white flowers grow very well, even in the wild, and some are just covered with white in the Spring. Thanks Amy!
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Lovely flowers, Hien. They sure bring back a lot of memories. One of my sister Karin’s house has a couple of white Dogwood trees (in Virginia). That was the first time I saw the flower. I remember I was so excited every time I saw them. That was long time ago… Thank you!
Have a great day.
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These trees are very nice, even without flowers. In the fall their leaves turn red, another plus. Thank you for commenting, Helen!
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