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Southern Living® Plant Collection Wins Georgia Gold Medal05-07-15 | News

Southern Living® Plant Collection Wins Georgia Gold Medal

Empress of China® Dogwood selected among the best by Georgia industry professionals to be a Georgia Gold Medal Plant winner.

Empress of China® Dogwood, a high-performing tree in the Southern Living® Plant Collection, received recognition as a Gold Medal Plant winner for 2015. Winners were chosen from five categories: natives, annuals, trees, shrubs and vines, and groundcovers.

Empress of China® Dogwood is an evergreen tree that works well as an accent plant in the landscape. It will add year-round interest, but is spectacular when it showcases hundreds of creamy white blooms in the early summer. It is characterized by a graceful habit with branches that hold up to 150 blooms each, which eventually transform into translucent strawberry-like fruit. This vigorous grower reaches 15 to 18 feet high and 13 to 15 feet wide at maturity. It thrives in full- to partial-shade and is hardy to USDA zone 6.

The Gold Medal Plant Program https://botgarden.uga.edu/explore/goldmedalplants.php was established to promote the use of superior ornamental plants in Georgia. Visit https://southernlivingplants.com to learn more.