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For example, opt for small trees such as Japanese maple, flowering dogwood, crabapple, serviceberry, and redbud rather than towering shade trees.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
There’s no guarantee, but some plants are less likely to be damaged by Japanese beetles, such as red maple, boxwood, flowering dogwood, holly, magnolia, some types of oaks and most evergreens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 May 2025
Ornamental offerings include flowering dogwood, persimmon, serviceberry and elderberry.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
Established plants have some drought tolerance, and grow at a similar pace overall to flowering dogwood.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
There’s no guarantee, but some plants are less likely to be damaged by Japanese beetles, such as red maple, boxwood, flowering dogwood, holly, magnolia, some types of oaks and most evergreens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 May 2025
Ornamental offerings include flowering dogwood, persimmon, serviceberry and elderberry.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
Established plants have some drought tolerance, and grow at a similar pace overall to flowering dogwood.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
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flowering dogwood
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flow·er·ing dogwood
ˈflau̇(-ə)r-iŋ- 
: a common spring-flowering white-bracted dogwood of the genus Cornus (C. florida) the dried bark of whose root has been used as a mild astringent and stomachic
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