What Iâd like to do with this column is elaborate a bit more on what a narrative hook is, how you can create great opening sentences, and how that hook relates to the rest of your story or novel. Wait, thatâs a terrible narrative hook.
Of the 17 species of dogwood native to North America, the four most common garden types are native flowering dogwoods, Pacific dogwood, Cornelian cherry dogwood and kousa dogwoods.n the winter, the tree has an attractive silhouette with small buds at the tips of the branches. Flowering dogwoods grow to between 12 and 20 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 6 to 12 inches. They thrive in sun or shade. Those in full sun are shorter with better leaf color, especially in the fall.
Flowering Dogwood leaves turn bright red in the Fall. Susan J. Aldworth, Trees and Shrubs of the Campus of Iowa State University. Copyright, Mark Brand, UConn Plant Database. Flowering Dogwoods are one of our most common understory trees. Understory means that it grows beneath taller trees.This small tree grows about 30 feet tall. Its trunk usually isn't more than eight inches wide. The trunk is also short, with many spreading branches.eer and rabbits also eat young Flowering Dogwoods. Some pests of this tree are dogwood borers, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars of moths, such as Io Moth and tussock moths.