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Tress and Flowers along Knoxville's Dogwood Trails

Most of the dogwoods seen along the trails are the wild native white dogwoods. Climate and soil here are especially favorable to the dogwood and the trees grow tall and bloom profusely. Blossoms average 4” in length and we have many trees that are close rivals of Maryland’s trees, which claim to be America’s largest dogwood. Please note our unusual weeping dogwood similar in form to the weeping cherry tree. It is usually found growing in the shade of oak trees. This is a natural formation and cannot be transplanted. More about the Tress and Flowers along Knoxville's Dogwood Trails

Festival on Market Square

Dogwood Arts Festival President Ken Knight says the Festival on Market Square is helping to make Knoxville a destination art city. Throughout the event, art enthusiasts can purchase paintings, pottery, glass, jewelry, woodwork, and metal art while enjoying live performances by country, string, blues, and folk bands on two stages. Throughout the festival food and refreshments will be available from a variety of food vendors. This is something for your whole family to enjoy. Be sure to mark your calendars. More about the Festival on Market Square

Fine Arts Show

The Dogwood Arts Festival 2008 Fine Arts Show was developed to provide a forum for regional artists to compete and display their work. The selected art features both traditional and non-traditional work and will be exhibited at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville. Awards include a Best-of-Show Award of $500 and Honorable Mention Awards of $150 each as designated by the juror, whose decision is final. Be sure to mark your calendars. You don't want to miss out on this. More about the Fine Arts Show

The Dogwood Arts Festival House & Garden Show

The Dogwood Arts Festival House & Garden Show is the largest house and garden show in Tennessee for the do-it-yourselfer and the gardening enthusiast. Besides rooms capes and tables capes visitors can see artist at work making high quality items for everybody’s home and garden needs. This is something for your whole family to enjoy. Come and enjoy a day out. Be sure to mark your calendars. You don’t want to miss out on this event. More about The Dogwood Arts Festival House & Garden Show

Art In Public Places Knoxville

Art in Public Places Knoxville (APPK) announces a call for entries for its 2009 sculpture exhibition. APPK is a program on the Dogwood Arts Festival in partnership with the City of Knoxville. The 2009 call for entries welcomes applications from new and previously exhibiting artist. The exhibition will feature around fifteen (15) large to monumental sculptures. The selected sculptures will be places in downtown Knoxville in the Krutch Park and Krutch Park extension. More about the Art In Public Places Knoxville

Fourth and Gill

Historic Fourth & Gill is an excellent example of the neighborhoods that flourished in Knoxville during the last quarter of the 19th Century. The Fourth & Gill neighborhood is a historic neighborhood with specific design guidelines. The revitalized neighborhood features restored Victorian homes first built in the 1880s. Many of the homes’ landscaping includes original trees, plants, and shrubberies. This trail provides a leisurely stroll down the memory lane of historic North Knoxville, beautified and shared by Fourth and Gill’s gracious residents. More about Fourth and Gill

Dogwood Arts Festival Parade

2009 Parade Date Announced! The grand finale of the 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival will be held on Friday, April 24th, 2009 with the spectacular Dogwood Parade down Gay Street. (Rain date: May 1, 2009) Plans are already underway to make this the most interactive and entertaining parade yet! Get your company, church group, scout troop, charity or any other organization involved by sponsoring a giant parade balloon or by forming a balloon handling team. For more information, contact the Dogwood office at 865.637.4561. Teams fill up fast, so don't delay! More about the Dogwood Arts Festival Parade

The Dogwood Arts Festival 2008 Student Art Show

The Dogwood Arts Festival 2008 Student Art Show was developed to provide a forum for student artists to compete and display their work. The selected art features both traditional and non-traditional work and will be exhibited at The Phoenix in downtown Knoxville and Farragut Town Hall. Open to all artists in grades 6-12. Submit only work completed within the last school year. Awards include a one Best-of-Show Award and two Jurors Citations in both High School (9-12 grade) and Middle School categories (6-8 grade) as designated by the juror(s), whose decision is final. Awarded works will be used in the 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival publicity materials. More about The Dogwood Arts Festival 2008 Student Art Show

The Dogwood Tree

Knoxville’s pink dogwood has an unusual deep color-almost red. All these deep pink trees are commercially grafted, but the unusual color is caused by our naturally acidic soil. There is a native wild pink dogwood; several examples may be seen along the trails. This wild pink dogwood is very pale pink-the merest flush of color on white. Nurserymen used trees such as these to create the commercial pink dogwood. They grafted pink branches on the roots of the white dogwood stock, thus creating pink dogwood blossoms. More about The Dogwood Tree

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