As the name suggests this variety of dogwood sports red flowers in spring rather than the usual creamy white ones these hardy shrubs are becoming increasingly popular in garden design as they have a structure and form that is both eye pleasing and also neat and tidy another bonus feature of this shrub is that its blooms are attractive to bees and butterflies so it will draw them into your garden where you can enjoy seeing them due to its neat compact habit cornus royal red is also suitabl