Cornus

WHERE: Variegated redtwig dogwood, also known as cornus alba Elegantissima, is extremely adaptable and grows in a range of soil types from clay to sand, wet to dry, once established. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shrubs grown for their coloured stems (such as cornus and willows) can be cut back to ground level now. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Turning to the bewildered crowd in the rear, she explained with a vigor that set her bandanna "cornus" quivering: "Yassum, dese eyes done seen dat very man he talk about - de onliest man what could set us free. ❋ Adelaide Stuart Dimitry (1911)

Vines, cornus, willow, buddleia and fig will be rooted by spring and ready for potting by mid-summer. ❋ Dan Pearson (2010)

And maybe a couple more cornus, they have a big shipment that just arrived at the local big box store. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Love the colours of the maples and cornus – I think they are brighter than those I have here – perhaps they are effected by the very cold winters you have? ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the cornus are not for your area, there will be plenty of other things, like the willows that should grow for you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I believe we are on the edge of the range for the bright stemmed cornus, they would be more colorful if we were colder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I particularly like the first shot of the cornus – ❋ Unknown (2010)

We had some issues with the variegated cornus, but these green leaf types are doing much better. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At last my two years of college Latin pays off: the “corn” part of unicorn is from cornus, horn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cornus are dwarf, only 4×4 at maturity, now they are more like 1×1, but the stem coloration is great. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cornus and heucheras were presents from me to me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There will be lantanas in there during the summer for color when the cornus are just green leaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For a study of female immunological infertility by Chen Xiaoping, researchers used Guyin Decoction ginseng, rehmannia, dioscorea, cornus, cuscuta, polygala, schizandra, and licorice to treat 60 women with infertility attributed to antisperm immune response. ❋ Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier (2000)

Here and there, breaking the cold monotone, a bush of moose maple shows the white-streaked green of its bare stems and sprays, or cornus or willow gives a soft glow of red, purple or yellow. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

With the plantings thus described, and with the gymnasium surrounded by yet stronger greenery; with the back fence masked by willows, elders and red-stemmed cornus; and with a number of haphazard footpaths reduced to an equally convenient and far more graceful few, our scheme stands complete in its first, but only, please notice, its first, phase. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

The valley was not a smooth level as it had looked from the river, but broken into little waves and hollows of ground; in parts, near the woods, a good deal strewn with loose rocks and grown with low clumpy bushes of different species of cornus, and buckthorn, and sweetbriar. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Rock oaks were part green and part sear; at the edge of the shore below them a quantity of reddish low shrubbery; the cornus, dark crimson and red brown, with its white berries shewing underneath, and more pepperidges in very bright red. ❋ Unknown (1856)