Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 they smother their bare gray

they smother their bare gray branches in clouds of white hawthorn bloom

On the ordinary inkberry the dark berries all but vanish against the deep green leaves

Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata' carries large

and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground

Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 they smother their bare grayThere is a version of the flowering dogwood almost nobody has met. Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' was found in Suwannee County, Florida, by Bob Simons, a forest ecologist who spent half a century protecting the wild hardwood country of north Florida. As a young man in the early 1970s he walked a mixed hardwood hammock outside Gainesville, decided the place was worth saving, and talked ten landowners and the state into making it San Felasco Hammock;