Dogwood trees are popular spring-blooming, deciduous trees with blossomsthat appear before the foliage, making their floral display especiallystriking. Eddie's White Wonder dogwood (Cornus nuttallii x florida) is aparticularly attractive hybrid variety with profuse white blossoms, adistinctive growth pattern and enhanced disease resistance. In earlyspring, the hybrid produces abundant, striking white 4-inch wide flowerswith especially large, overlapping false petals, or bracts. The tree has amore narrow frame than native types, with branches that arise in a layeredpattern to give the tree a somewhat pyramidal shape. Eddie's White Wonderis also taller than other dogwoods, reaching a height of 20 feet atmaturity with a width of about 15 feet. In the autumn, Eddie's White Wonderprovides additional landscape interest when its leaves turn an attractivereddish color. After flowering, the tree develops orange to red fruitscalled drupes, which are about one half inch in diameter with a spinysurface. These fruits are popular autumn and winter food for manybirds

Garden Use
A large tree for a large space. Generallyconsidered too large and too messy for street tree use but ideal tree forurban locations as it is tolerant of pollution, soil compaction, droughtand heavy pruning, often being pollarded.

PlantingGuide
Easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soils infull sun. Tolerates light shade. Prefers rich, humusy, consistently moistsoils. Generally tolerant of most urban pollutants.