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Dogwood usually blooms from May
Dogwood has its heyday in late spring
The term dogwood or hornbeam is understood to mean a group of shrubs or small trees that are distributed throughout the northern hemisphere of the earth. Some of the approximately 55 species are native to our country, while others find their way from East Asia or North America into Central European gardens. The white, rarely yellow flowers develop in almost all species in late spring or early summer.
Dogwood flowers mostly between May and June
Mostly in the months of May to June, the flowers of most types of dogwood open, such as the various flower dogwood (including the Japanese dogwood Cornus kousa as well as the American dogwood Cornus florida) and the native red dogwood (Cornus sanguinea). Only the yellow-flowering Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) and the quite similar Japanese Cornelian cherry (Cornus officinalis) already bloom between March and April and thus even before the leaf shoot. However, there are also late flowering species such as the giant or pagoda dogwood, which has its heyday only in the months of June / July.
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Most dogwoods bloom at an advanced age between six and nine years.