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Patiently Waiting
January 12, 2025 Patiently waiting for spring. Buds of Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) covered with icy snow. Flowering Dogwood flowers are actually not what you think. What are thought to be petals are not petals at all, but are bracts. The flowers are yellow, very small, clustered at the center, surrounded by the bracts. In…
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Dogwood
Another day of thick fog, drizzle and rain. Another day of wet leaves that brighten the colors of the leaves and color the beginning of autumn. There are well more than thirty — to nearly sixty — species of plants in the genus Cornus. Twelve of them are native to the United States and Canada.…