How to Use flowering dogwood in a Sentence

flowering dogwood

noun

• What is the best place to plant a flowering dogwood?
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• Two hang in a flowering dogwood in the front yard and the rest are in trees or on poles in the back.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
• Be sure to visit in the spring for the flowering dogwood blooms.
  — Dallas News, 24 May 2021
• Often, flowering dogwoods for sale here were grown down South and aren’t hardy enough.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Learn how to select, grow, and care for this all-season beauty—the flowering dogwood tree.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• Image There are few trees as admired as the flowering dogwood.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• The flowering dogwood trees are unique in that the blooms are so dense that the trees appear to be laden with a heavy coat of pink and white flowers.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
• Kousa dogwoods are native to Asia and bloom about a month later than flowering dogwood.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• There are many dogwood species, but no type is quite as popular in the South as the flowering dogwood.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
• There are many dogwood species, but no type is quite as popular in the South as the flowering dogwood.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
• The most visible wildflowers were the large, white blossoms of the flowering dogwood along the state park road.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• This looks like Eastern flowering dogwood and these do have a tendency to get powdery mildew.
  — oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Some students were even lucky enough to be chosen to grab shovels to help fill the hole for the flowering dogwood placed near the school’s main entrance.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 19 May 2022
• Trees include redbud, river birch and white flowering dogwood.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• On a recent morning, the river's icy water, flanked by flowering dogwood trees and jagged rock formations, flowed fast and clean.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 7 May 2018
• Kousa's flowers and foliage appear together in the spring and not one after the other like with the flowering dogwood.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
• Some trees, such as black cherry, flowering dogwood and white oak, also begin to produce a pigment called anthocyanin each fall.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
• Kousa also boasts handsome flaking bark, and most important, kousa resists disease and isn't as fussy about soil as flowering dogwood is.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
• Just like our native flowering dogwood that has big, white, flouncy bracts that surround the true dogwood flowers that are greenish-yellow.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Come spring and summer, the surrounding landscaped gardens come alive with roses, hydrangeas, and flowering dogwood.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
• Clusters of crabapple, flowering dogwood and saucer magnolia trees have long drawn arboretum aficionados from far and wide.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• The tree species expected to be available include Ohio buckeye, tulip poplar, white flowering dogwood, white pine and yellowwood.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2025
• The garden’s blooms include spirea, Japanese snowbell, flowering dogwood, lilacs, roses and much more.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• Wait to prune early flowering trees, including flowering dogwood, azalea, redbud, and lilac.
  — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 25 Jan. 2026
• Add white flowering dogwood branches, Queen Anne’s Lace, spirea, and white flowers to a tall cylindrical vase that’s clear, white, or blue.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
• Missouri The flowering dogwood, found in southern and central Missouri, is the state's official tree.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Trees available during this week's event are flowering dogwood, sour gum, northern red oak, eastern redbud and American hornbeam.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• This lovely native tree, offering fleecy, white flowers in spring and bright yellow fall foliage, makes a good substitute for a flowering dogwood if your yard doesn't support those trees.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
• The Chinese dogwood is far more resistant to both dogwood anthracnose and powdery mildew that can plague the native flowering dogwood in some locations.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2022