Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 and this hardy form brings

and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground

undemanding once settled

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

is a living fossil and one of the rarest conifers on earth

where the whole herb

Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 and this hardy form bringsThere 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;