Description

The Pink Flowering Dogwood is a Fast-Growing Tree with Spectacular Flowers & Amazing Fall Color

• Pink Flowering Dogwood Tree is smothered in early spring with large, bright pink flowers.
• In fall the leaves will turn brilliant shades of crimson and red.
• Full sun to partial shade
• Height 15-30 ft. Width 25-35 ft.
• Zones 5-9
• Botanical Name: Cornus florida var. ruba

The Pink Dogwood tree is truly a plant for all seasons with its amazing pink early spring blossoms, summertime dark green leaves that turn bright red in the autumn, and gray stems with brilliant red fruit in the winter.

The Pink Dogwood tree features beautiful, biscuit-shaped pink flower bracts and elegant low horizontal branches. The deciduous tree’s glossy, red berries are attractive to birds. In winter, the dogwood’s gray stems and checkered bark offer contrast to an otherwise drab winter landscape.

This dogwood flowering tree is popular as a specimen tree or small grouping on residential property around homes, near patios, or in lawns. Also a nice choice in woodland gardens.

Planting Dogwood trees trees in your landscape will attract birds and other wildlife. The Pink flowering dogwood tree is an important source of food for birds including robins, cardinals, and waxwings. Over 35 species of birds can thrive on the small dogwood tree berries during the winter months.

This type of dogwood can be grown as an understory tree. Meaning it can handle dry spells and living under larger trees in the shade of the canopy. It generally stays a small tree.

USDA Hardiness Grow Zoned 5 through 9

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