Why Birds Need Native Plants Native plants for birds are like Mom’s home cooking. They’re the tried-and-true foods that keep ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Maybe it's because they're native and grow wild in our woods.

Dogwood and many other deciduous trees and shrubs are best pruned in late winter or spring. Apply preemergent crabgrass preventer to lawns before crabgrass seeds sprout, which begins when soil ...

Growing dogwood trees in North Carolina typically ... In terms of location, flowering dogwoods grow well in partially shaded areas, such as the understory of larger trees. However, they can ...