Evergreen, Trees, Semi-evergreen
All dogwoods offer attractive foliage and blossoms; some have spectacular fruit or winter bark. Leaves of many types turn brilliant colors in fall. What appear to be flower petals in many dogwoods are actually bracts—petal-like modified leaves. These surround the inconspicuous true flowers.
Himalayan native hardy to 15°F/–9°C. Not reliably evergreen; may drop all its leaves in cold weather, and often loses half of them in mild winters. Grows to 20–30 ft. tall and wide, with 2–4-in.-long, gray-green leaves; some turn red or purplish in fall.
Unless grown from cuttings; the trees don't flower until 8 to 10 years old, but when they do bloom, they are delightful. Small springtime clusters of flowers are surrounded by four to six 1 1/2-in.–2-in. creamy to pale yellow bracts. Large (1-in.), showy, strawberrylike crimson fruit in fall can be a litter problem, though birds may do some of the cleanup for you.
Himalayan native hardy to 15°F/–9°C. Not reliably evergreen; may drop all its leaves in ...
Native to the Balearic Islands and Corsica. Dainty-looking but tough plant, forming a dense foliage tu...
Hardy to –15°F/–26°C. Hybrids between Mollis azaleas and R. viscosum