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Give the plant what the mountain parents want: full sun to light shade and moist but sharply drained

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Cornus florida "Welch's Junior Miss" Small & Medium Shrubs Give the plant what theCornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is the beloved understory tree of the eastern North American woods, widely planted for the great show of white spring bracts (the true flowers are the small green knot at the center), and, in selections like this one, pink. A deciduous woodland tree that grows in moist, well drained soil in sun or high, dappled shade, the dogwood rewards careful planting: set the root flare high, and never plant too deep.