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Juneberries, the northern garden’s answer to flowering dogwood

May 11th, 2007 · 14 Comments

Juneberries blooming at the top of the field - by Rundy 2003I spent my childhood in climates where the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) flourished, and I loved its elegant simplicity. When we moved here, I was dismayed but not surprised when my new neighbor told me that she had twice planted a flowering dogwood in a protected corner of her house, and twice it had died. Having just endured my first thirty-degrees-below-zero-Fahrenheit winter, no, I was not surprised.

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