Dogwood Varieties

NorthernFocus

I've always loved dogwood trees. When I was a kid I'd go out in the woods and dig little ones up (OK I've had therapy since then) and my mom planted them in her yard. Over the years my folks house came to look like a dogwood and azalia garden. Absolutely beautiful in the spring.

Here are some images of different varieties of dogwood blooms.

Pink Flowering Dogwood


Pacific Dogwood (note the flowers have six bracts rather than four like regular flowering dogwood found back east)



Dwarf Dogwood (aka Canadian Dogwood)

Awais Yaqub

Loved the 1st and the 4th shot a lot

NorthernFocus

Thanks, Awais. That fourth shot was taken on my first outing with a new Nikon 105mm, f2.8 VR macro lens. The shot was taken handheld in very low light with the following settings: 1/20s f/16.0 at 105.0mm iso320.

The VR feature has almost made my tripod obsolete .

Skippy

articblooms wrote:

I've always loved dogwood trees. When I was a kid I'd go out in the woods and dig little ones up (OK I've had therapy since then) and my mom planted them in her yard. Over the years my folks house came to look like a dogwood and azalia garden. Absolutely beautiful in the spring.

Here are some images of different varieties of dogwood blooms.

Pink Flowering Dogwood
Pacific Dogwood (note the flowers have six bracts rather than four like regular flowering dogwood found back east)
Dwarf Dogwood (aka Canadian Dogwood)

The Pink Dogwood flower are gorgeous, I like the light in that shot too
The dwarfed variety look so different.

Love that first shot Articblooms .... Skippy
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NorthernFocus

Thanks, Skippy. The pink blooms usually fade quickly after they open. The tree where I captured this image was beside a tall buiding where it was shaded from the afternoon sun. One of the darkest pink dogwoods I've ever seen. The dwarf dogwood are the only ones we have in Alaska :

RogersDA

Those are some nice shots. I especially like the colors and composition in the first one.