dogwood

As we drove through North Carolina and Virginia, I took note of the pine and redbud trees, forsythia, dogwoods and wisteria that were beginning to bloom.

Every community group can do something, like Girl Scout Troop 4 in Orange, New Jersey that planted 50 dogwood trees as part of the new Girl Scouts Tree Promise to plant five million trees.

Some years, they swallow up the dogwood, thick as heavy snow.

It is popularly known in the United States as "poison sumach," "poison dogwood" and "poison elder."

A slight shower of rain fell in the afternoon; and during our ride we first observed the dogwood (cornus florida).

An occasional golden dogwood leaf fluttered past the open windows, like a lazy yellow bird.

At last, "Let's go for a walk—you and me," she said, jumping up and going towards the dogwood thicket.

But she came back smiling and trailing great branches of white dogwood over her shoulder and down her sky-blue gown.