My harbinger of spring is not the robin, which anyway often decides to stay here all winter, but a plant called cornelian cherry (Cornus mas). Most years, the tree is swathed in a show of small, ...

Blooming even earlier than Forsythia, the Cornelian cherry dogwood tree (Cornus mas) is a cheery harbinger of spring when the clusters of soft yellow flowers come into bloom in late January. This ...

STARVED FOR COLOR in the landscape after months of drab weather, many gardeners eagerly welcome the brash, chrome-yellow flowers of forsythia. Even though, in the watery light of early spring, the ...

Several years ago, outside the iconic 1948 Horticulture building at UBC, I discovered a new favourite tree. It was late August and this gorgeous dogwood looking creature was covered in what appeared ...