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So, you know you can count on Cornelian cherry to thrive in your garden.

Cornelian cherry is a deciduous tree with exceptionally hard wood, slow-growing to 10 feet in 10 years, and 15 to 20 feet high and as wide at maturity.

Cornelian cherry also makes a striking statement when planted in multiples, like the mature plantings along a drive in the parking lot of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture, located just off Northeast 41st Street in the Montlake neighborhood.

With a pleasingly rounded form, Cornelian cherry may be trained as a multitrunked small tree and worked into mixed plantings alongside hellebores, primroses, early bulbs and other early spring-border beauties.

For northern climates, Lehrer strongly suggests the cornelian cherry dogwood.