British Columbia’s provincial flower is the Pacific dogwood.

The name comes from the fact that sailors used the wood of this tree to make nails, otherwise known as dags – or later, dogs – in ship repairs.

It has been British Columbia’s provincial flower since 1956.

So elegant and sparkling in either white or the dogwood’s alternative colour, pink, it’s another marvellous addition to the spring pantheon of beauty.

Happy Tuesday.