Cornus Florida is one of the most beautiful trees with showy spring flowering, red berries and scarlet to purple leaves in autumn. Buds appear on the shrub in early spring and do not wait for the leaves to emerge, developing their colourful bracts, which are often mistaken for petals, at the first warmer days. A pink cultivar of this shrub (Cornus Florida ‘Rubra’) can be seen below our Alpine.