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Trees available during this week's event are flowering dogwood, sour gum, northern red oak, eastern redbud and American hornbeam.
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Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Bright colors are already starting to appear in certain tree species, like black walnuts, flowering dogwoods, red maples, and sassafras.
—Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
American hornbeam and flowering dogwood Evolved to thrive in the dappled shade of the forest understory with a small footprint, the hornbeam handles city heat and compact soil.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
The homeowner can get a rebate on a smaller tree that would provide an intermediate forest layer for wildlife and tolerate shade, such as an American hornbeam or a flowering dogwood.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
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Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Bright colors are already starting to appear in certain tree species, like black walnuts, flowering dogwoods, red maples, and sassafras.
—Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
American hornbeam and flowering dogwood Evolved to thrive in the dappled shade of the forest understory with a small footprint, the hornbeam handles city heat and compact soil.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
The homeowner can get a rebate on a smaller tree that would provide an intermediate forest layer for wildlife and tolerate shade, such as an American hornbeam or a flowering dogwood.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
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flowering dogwood
noun
flow·er·ing dogwood
ˈflau̇(-ə)r-iŋ- 
: a common spring-flowering white-bracted dogwood of the genus Cornus (C. florida) the dried bark of whose root has been used as a mild astringent and stomachic
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