Here’s a dogwood that is guaranteed to light up your life and your landscape. This cross between Cornus florida and Cornus kousa produces masses of large white overlapping bracts at a convenient time in the landscape after its florida parents and before its kousa parents! This mid-May bloom starts out tinged with green before turning a bright snowy white then changing again with tranquil pink hues washing over the blooms as they mature. It’s an unforgettable show of blooming power that is not to be outdone by impressive purple-red fall foliage color that is riveting. Better yet, like all these Stellar Series crosses, the acclaimed disease resistance ‘Celestial’ has to offer makes it a slam dunk as one of the best easy care specimen trees you can grow in your half to full sun landscape.

Straight from the prolific breeders at Rutgers University, this Cornus florida/Cornus kousa cross will electrify you with easy-care, year-round beauty. This aggressive, upright when young, spreading when the older the small tree is one of the most prolific bloomers you’ll ever see in a Dogwood of any type as it becomes an impenetrable cloud of snowy white, rounded bloom in mid-May. This immense show would be enough to make Hyperion® one of your favorite trees but it keeps right on supplying you with great characteristics throughout the year from glossy, deep green summer foliage to red, strawberry-like fruit in late summer and fall that birds love to awesome fall foliage coloration in mixed red, orange and purple shades to subtle yet beautiful mottled bark in the winter. This small tree is a winner and one of the best, easy-care trees you can grow in any full to half-day sunny spot in your yard!

A member of the Stellar Series that came to us by way of Rutgers University, Aurora is a cross between Cornus florida and Cornus kousa that brings the best of both parents to a single plant. ‘Aurora’ promises resistance to borers and dogwood anthracnose while exhibiting a flower show that falls between the timing of the two parents bloom time, starting in mid-May. Its bloom is, in a word, magnificent with large, greenish-white bracts that open far larger than either parent and transition to a creamy white. The flower production is so heavy the foliage will almost disappear providing a cloud-like appearance in the landscape that is a sight to behold!

This underused form of Dogwood will thrill you with its long-lasting, small yellow early spring flowers and superb, creamy bordered green foliage. Bird love it for its cherry-like late summer fruit and you will love is fall foliage color

Tiered horizontal branches hold dark green leaves that provide the backdrop for masses of white, star-like flowers in late May and June. Showy red fruit and purple-red fall foliage. 

Breathtaking deep rose pink, overlapping flower bracts with red toned edges late May to early June. Bred to be more disease resistant, more drought resistant, and more floriferous than the Dogwood you’re used to! Long lasting bloom time for 3 or more weeks for a long show of spring color. Bright burgundy autumn foliage will light up your landscape for another blast of color in the fall.

You’ll never look at Dogwood the same way again once you catch a glimpse at this stunning piece of landscape eye candy! ‘Wolf Eyes’ dense, spreading form is awash in color just from its foliage with its wide, creamy white band surrounding a deep green center. It’s so colorful that you might miss its creamy white, star-shaped blossoms that cover the plant for up to 6 weeks starting in late May but, once you lay eyes on them, you’ll be amazed at the ferocity of this plants blooming power. Add in striking reddish-purple fall color and you have a plant that is year-round magic! 

Be dazzled by the the huge, deep, dark fuschia-pink flower bracts that will light up the rounded small tree in June. Bred at Rutgers University, this precocious tree grows quickly and blooms as a very young tree showing off brilliant color almost right away in the landscape. Superb burgundy fall foliage color and large, bird attracting fruit add to its glory.

Here’s a plant with landscape gifts that should demand a place in anyone’s yard! Dense and full with showy, red emerging foliage that fades to a pleasing, lustrous green, ‘Satomi’s’ true gift is its profuse, long bloom time stretching from early June to early July and it’s light pink flowers, still a rarity in this type of dogwood. Disease resistant and mostly pest-free, ‘Satomi’ ends the season with a healthy set of bird-attracting red fruit and a reddish purple fall foliage display that is a show in itself.

While Cornus florida selections welcome spring, kousa selections like ‘Radiant Rose’ welcome summer with their mid-June, long lasting bloom that keeps them showy right into July. ‘Radiant Rose’ is one of the great pink kousa selections that distinguishes itself with flowers that mature deeper in color than the others offering a bolder show in the landscape. ‘Radiant Rose’ is a profuse bloomer whose bracts slowly size, emerging light pink only to darken as they mature. Like all kousa types, ‘Radiant Rose’ will tolerate full sun far better than the florida selections and is a dense, rounded tree with shiny, deep green foliage. ‘Radiant Rose’ is a perfect small specimen that has even more interest than its bloom with spectacular burgundy-red fall color, large red, songbird attracting fruit and a mottled bark that is subtly spectacular in winter.