So this morning before we got on the plane to come here, at the White House, we planted that tree in honor of the children of Oklahoma. It was a dogwood with its wonderful spring flower and its ...

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering.

In the 1930s, area naturalists were suggesting that Quincy residents plant a dogwood tree, either pink or white. Mrs. Ward Best, president of the Garden Club at that time, encouraged the club ...