The dogwood stands for endurance, for durability through all seasons.
Though we know them mostly as shrubs, dogwoods in the wild may tower, growing to seventy-five feet. In spring, the dogwood explodes into white bloom; in summer, it offers fine, open shade and clusters of red fruit. Pioneers in the American West made sweet preserves of dogwood berries. Even at year’s end, the dogwood’s yellow twigs grace the winter garden.
The dogwood sends its long stems underground; from these subterranean stems, the new trees grow.