White Dogwood Flower

Within the confines of the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, during the spring season as the plants and trees are beginning to bloom, the dogwoods slowly come to life, their buds opening up to at last reveal a single white dogwood flower.

Long slender branches reach out, dividing into more branches still, ultimately sending out a thousand little stems, each with a beautiful white dogwood flower attached to its end.

As the bud finally opens, it stamps its mark on the soft white dogwood flower by leaving a dark spot on the tip each its four white petals.

With a bright yellowish green flower in the center of the four delicate petals(bracts), the white dogwood flower presents a complimentary contrast against the light brown bark of the trunk and branches, and the fresh green of the new leaves.

As you wander through the Norfolk Botanical Gardens in the budding spring of the year, you will find the dogwoods spread throughout the park, some by the water, some in the thickets. And each white dogwood flower lending its beauty to the unique garden landscape.

And every white dogwood flower, with its elegant simplicity, provides a very graceful expression of loveliness to the garden.