Kousa dogwood is not flowering now, btw - they don't flower until well after the leaves appear.

Some of the native ones are leafing before they flower this year- not sure why. At least, some of mine are. I'm looking out the window at one now. I was noticing a few just starting to bloom yesterday. It was weird winter....

As esh_ga said, _Cornus kousa_, the Chinese dogwood, flowers after leafing out. Its season of bloom is several weeks after our native dogwoods (_Cornus florida_) have finished blooming. If your native dogwoods were going to bloom this year, their flower buds would be obvious even though they may not have begun to show any color. Dogwoods set their buds in late summer/early fall, and their buds are noticeable all winter. If small and immature, your dogwoods are probably just not old enough to bloom.

Mine are like those of Tamelask, just starting to bloom although they already have a few leaves. Srange.

How old do dogwoods have to be before they bloom?
I have one that I planted last spring. It did not flower last year, so I was hoping to see it flower this year.

We have volunteer dogwoods around the edge of the yard that bloomed at three or four years old. We have a few survivors of the twelve or fifteen small trees we transplanted out of the far woods into the near woods twenty years ago. They have neither grown appreciably nor bloomed in all that time.
There are wild dogwoods all through the woods here in Lower Richland County; most years you can see them everywhere around this time. This year they all seem to be sparse of bloom.
I think the weather's been too nice; finally a winter with normal rainfall.
Wm

I did notice the bloom here was more sparse- but why would a good rainfall fall/winter make for less blooms? I'd think it would be the opposite. They have flowered very heavily the past few years, so perhaps they just needed a down year to recoup.

I'm afraid that was a feeble attempt at irony.
I went into town for groceries this evening and saw that the trees in folk's yards are covered with blooms. And had it pointed out that the loggers have been disturbing the woods where I usually see so many dogwood flowers. On the other hand, in the recently thinned planted pines the sand myrtle is making it look like a heavy snow lies on the ground.
Wm

My two garden center dogwoods flowered well the year after planting and the next. Re natives not being old enough, my natives flowered well every year until this year, and they didn't have obvious buds this year (or last fall I guess).

My extension agent says that dogwoods usually begin flowering a little later than the redbuds and while we were talking we could see a dogwood in full flower outside his office window but on my way home I found almost no dogwoods in bloom on my 10 mile drive.