The lower portion of a massive blue spruce tree forms the backdrop for a variety of plantings. A Kousa Dogwood tree in flower takes up the middle layer of this sidewalk-facing front-yard display, along with what is probably a rose bush, flowering in pink, and a pink-purple rhododendron bush. Two sculpted bush conifers support the scene from the bottom, and finally a few lavender bushes and unspecified other greenery fills in from the bottom. Two houses peek through from behind the display, and one driveway cuts through the scene between the two sculpted bush conifers.
If the dogwood tree were not in flower, you might mistake it to be just part of the blue spruce tree if you didn't look closely, it's so well cuddled by its neighbor.
Whenever I read that a tree is an understory tree or a "woodland edge" tree, I picture this #cornuskousa ensconced in its massive blue spruce tree neighbor.
Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.
#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities