A native of North America, bunchberry offers a delightful addition to gardens as a low-growing, shrubby groundcover with interest throughout the seasons. In spring, it produces flowers surrounded by ...

Over the weekend — as a one of many gardening-related Mother’s Day presents to myself — I planted seven bunchberry plants, just babies in 4-inch pots. Also known as Cornus canadensis or Cornus ...

Why it’s choice: Bunchberry, the ground-cover member of the dogwood family, is one of the most attractive and useful native plants for the garden. Whether in flower, fruit or simply in its leafy-green ...

The fastest flower in the west, or anywhere else, is a woodland wildflower of North America called bunchberry dogwood, says a research team with a really fast camera. A bunchberry dogwood (Cornus ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like a medieval catapult, the bunchberry dogwood shoots pollen grains into the air faster than ...

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Besides being the month of the longest days, the summer solstice and warm temperatures, June is usually very wet as well. (We have had a few Junes in recent years that were mostly dry.) Warmth and wet ...

A tiny Canadian shrub is the quickest-moving thing in the plant world, using a catapult mechanism to eject its pollen at a speed hundreds of times faster than a launched rocket, scientists have found.

Bright red berries dot the roadside and we pull off on a small turn-out and park. My dad and I, and my dog, Kéet, survey our surroundings: bull pine and spruce draped with moss, a soggy muskeg and ...