In 1956 British Columbia adopted the Pacific Dogwood as it's official floral emblem. I always loved the dogwood. When we lived in Steveston the neighbour across the street planted a dogwood tree in his front yard that I admired every year.
When we moved to where we live now the landscaping was already done. We had a tree that was planted very close to our house. Every year it made putting up our Christmas lights difficult. I went onto the city website and found the tree was planted too close to our house. We could remove it but we had to replace it. We went to a nursery and bought a pink dogwood. It's only three years old and look how well it's doing!
Our neighbours liked our tree so much, they got permission to remove their tree and replace it with a dogwood.
What a beautiful tree!
