Dogwood Tree Cultivars

Sanguinea are grown for their vivid winter stem colour while shrubby c mas the cornelian cherry is grown for its winter flowers and summer fruits.

Dogwood tree cultivars. Leaf buds are black and look like bristles forming on short stalks. Pacific dogwoods have tiny purple green flower clusters surrounded by large white bracts. So there are many reasons to plant a cornus in your garden. Choosing growing dogwood.

Shrubby cornus alba c. Flowering cornus dogwood trees are grown for their showy coloured bracts in late spring and early summer. With multicolored leaves that appear gold pink and green this is one of the larger varieties of the kousa dogwood reaching about twenty feet in height. It produces pink flowers and boasts white margins on its leaves.

It produces an abundant display of yellowish green flowers in spring and pinkish red berries in summer. This varied group of plants give great garden value. Flowering dogwood trees cornus florida and cornus kousa have large flower bracts in late spring to early summer that come in shades of white to rich pink. Dogwood is a small broadleaf shrub typically found growing along woodland edges and in hedgerows of southern england.

The latter two are introduced species that have earned a place in american gardens because they are more disease resistant than native species. They are distinctive with four petal like bracts around the central flowers. Cornus alba sibirica siberian dogwood cornus alba kesselringii black stem dogwood cornus alba elegantissima white dogwood this type of dogwood is highly ornamental making a colorful display that changes with the seasons. Most dogwood varieties also develop very decorative fruit in late summer and autumn.

Also known as chinese dogwood korean dogwood or japanese dogwood the kousa dogwood is a small deciduous tree or multi stemmed shrub. Northern swamp dogwood this species is known as cornus racemose. Other names for this tree include gray dogwood and panicled dogwood. The bark is grey and smooth with shallow ridges which develop with age and its twigs are smooth straight and slim.

Mature trees can grow to 10m. This white flowering dogwood tree cornus florida can grow up to 33 ft tall and like moist soil that is slightly acidic. Pacific or mountain dogwood cornus nuttallii can be grown as a medium size tree or tall shrub and is the western version of flowering dogwood cornus florida. Foliage will turn yellow orange and red in the fall.

Its blooms are white and its leaves grow very densely.