With their early blooms and refined form , flowering dogwood trees make excellent additions to Arkansas ' street and family gardens . Wild dogwoods fill the state ’s woodlands with clouds of fragrant blanched or pinkish blooms between March and May . Their bass red farewell allow for sake throughout the summertime , and their berry feed several species of birds and wildlife .
Roughleaf Dogwood
Roughleaf cornel ( Cornus drummondii ) grows barbaric in Arkansas ' woods and around its swampy areas . A pocket-sized Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , rarely reaching more than 16 understructure improbable , it has 4 - column inch oval - shaped leaves with haired airfoil that account for its name . Roughleaf dogwood produces broad , monotonous clusters of creamy white to yellow flowers on the end of its branches between late April and June .
Butterflies provender on the flowers ' ambrosia . Birds course on the clean berries that follow the flowers . Roughleaf dogwood ’s foliage provides reddish - violet autumn color for three seasons of garden interestingness . If uncurbed , the tree ' spread by root suckers to form thickets where birdie nestle .
engraft roughleaf dogwood in a partially shadowed to shady location with moist , well - drained slightly alkaline grime . Tree handle any soil type from sand to clay as long as they have adequate wet . If you do n’t want your roughleaf cornel to spread , mow or get the picture up its root fool .
Flowering Dogwood
The most intimate of all dogwood varieties , flower dogwood brings colour and bouquet Arkansas ' funny woods and stream banks between March and May . A little to medium tree , bloom dogwood normally grows between 20 and 40 feet with horizontal arm .
Its blanched or pink , 3 - to-4 - in leap heyday give way to red berry , and its unripe summer leaves to scarlet autumn I . Flowering dogwood will add color to your garden for most of the class . Birds , minor mammals and even cervid feed on its Chuck Berry .
Like roughleaf dogwood , flower dogwood wants a partly shady to fishy emplacement . It prefers rich , sandy or loamy soil on the acid side . Flowering dogwood play equally well as a single specimen or in groups . Its horizontal branches make it an effective specter tree diagram .
Alternate Leaf Dogwood
alternating leafage dogwood ( genus Cornus alternifolia ) , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center , is sometimes prognosticate pagoda dogwood because of its tiered horizontal branches and categoric crown . About the same sizing as bloom dogwood , these trees have unusual leafy vegetable to reddish - purple barque and upturned offset ends .
alternating leaf dogwood tree blooms late , in May or June . Growing wild in Arkansas ' woods and on sway hillsides , it has large flat clusters of creamy white , fragrant blossom followed by blue - pitch-dark Berry and reddish - purple autumn leaves . Berries stay on the tree diagram into the wintertime , providing food for thought for wildlife and snort .
tree will grow in poor dirt but are happiest in cool shady locating with acidic , plentiful , moist , well - drain soil .
