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Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

May 31, 2016 By Laura

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Red Twig Dogwoods are mainly grown for their Winter interest, but their Spring blooms are beautiful as well. Here’s why this is a great garden shrub!
Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Why am I so excited that our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming? Because these blooms are usually not a big deal each Spring, nor are the blooms the main reason why these shrubs are planted!

Red Twig Dogwoods in Winter

Most people plant Red Twig Dogwoods for their Winter interest, as the stems — i.e. the red twigs — are such a brilliant color against the usually blah Winter landscape.

Here are some of our Red Twig Dogwoods as they looked back in January:

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Some people will cut these twigs and use them in Winter or holiday arrangements. We like to leave them as is, because they provide such a welcome bit of color in our front gardens each Winter.

You can see how vibrant those red stems are:

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Oh – and when it snows? The look of those red stems against the white snow is stunning!!

Red Twig Dogwoods in Spring, Summer and Fall

Usually, when you read about Red Twig Dogwoods, most of the talk is about their Winter Interest.

The rest of the year they are a great background shrub — my description — as they are filled with lush, green leaves, practically hiding those gorgeous red stems.

The Fall leaves aren’t very colorful, but it doesn’t matter when you have striking red twigs that are the perfect shade for your Autumn colors in the garden.

Red Twig Dogwood Flowers

The Spring flowers — when mentioned — are never really ooh-ed and aah-ed over. It’s more like “this shrub has white flowers in Spring followed by small berries….”

End of story.

And that’s how our shrubs were the first two years…

…until this year!

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Each one of our red twig dogwood shrubs looks like the one above! The flowers are very showy this year, and oh so pretty! (Definitely worthy of oohs and aahs!)

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Close up, each flower head resembles Queen Anne’s Lace to me.

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Need to see what Queen Anne’s Lace looks like? Check out this gorgeous arrangement of Queen Anne’s Lace in a blue mason jar from my friend Jennifer’s blog Town and Country Living:

Queen Annes Lace from Town and Country Living

(Click on the mason jar image above to visit Jennifer’s blog, filled with farmhouse goodness: decorating, recipes and DIY projects that I love. And you will too!)

Having our red twig dogwood shrubs covered in these elegant flowers has been such a nice surprise, and is yet another reason why I love to garden: you never know what Mother Nature is going to do from year to year!

Surprise: our Red Twig Dogwoods are blooming!

Happy gardening!

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Comments

  1. Jennifer @ Town and Country Living says

    May 31, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Your dogwood looks great, Laura! Ours has yet to bloom. Our hydrangea however, is filled with buds and I can’t wait for the flowers to open. Hopefully our dogwood will look as good as yours this year. Thanks for featuring my little floral arrangement!

    • Laura says

      June 3, 2016 at 10:39 am

      Thanks Jennifer! Our hydrangeas don’t have any buds on them yet – just lots of lush, green leaves. I keep checking, like waiting for a pot of water to boil! LOL

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