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Red dogwood

Hi - in the recent torrential rain my red dogwood in an island bed has been trashed and is now half it's height and won't stand upright again. Is it too late to cut all the bent stems (about half the shrub) hard back or shall I stake it? I don by roxy2

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10/07/2012 07:20:11

by little-ann

Pruning Dogwood

Is it ok to prune my dogwood at this time of yea?, it's getting a bit too big ! I hard pruned my dogwood in early spring, this is the traditional time to prune it to ensure you get the coloured stems over winter. Sometimes I do a little 6 inch trim by fionaf

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27/06/2012 08:33:16

by fionaf

Dogwood Cuttings

If these are the coloured stemmed dogwoods I'd go for layering, then you don't have to water though the summer or do anything much else. Just pin a long stem down onto some loosened soil and it will root. I'm gradually spreading them over a bank by this method. Pin down by Jammy2

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07/01/2013 21:53:25

by Verdun

dogwood in containers

suggestions? Thanks The idea of growing Cornus (Dogwood) is for the coloured stems to liven up the garden in winter so go easy on the pruning.They do nothing but leaf up all summer then drop the leaves and colour up from bright red through the spectrum by ronan q

17/07/2012 09:48:05

by Palaisglide

variagated dogwood tree

Hi, moved into a house with an established garden 18months ago, there was a very overgrown what I think is a variagated dogwood which I ended up pruning right back to the soil almost. It now seems to be growing quite well except that some by Joan 3

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30/07/2012 19:09:53

by christopher2

Talkback: How to prune and propagate dogwoods

How do I prune a camelia it quite big now and also a forsythe thank you for a wonderful site crystal2010 how late in the spring can I cut back my dogwood bushes, is mid april to late as they know have leaves. We've just done all ours last week by crystal2010

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16/04/2012 08:37:05

by obelixx

Talkback: Dogwood and willow

by jellicoe

28/11/2011 18:30:26

by jellicoe

Talkback: Dogwood, snowdrop and lilyturf pot display

by amyblue

24/11/2011 15:29:11

by amyblue

Talkback: Escallonia

Hi Kate we have two Escallonia growing along the fence with tubular flowers mixed in with dogwood and cotinus and a flowering cherry and pyracantha and cotoneaster all growing happy together ,they have been in about 7 years and are well over grown by oldchippy

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10/03/2012 21:57:55

by Dragonflyblue

After the storms.......

stems of dogwood the scene is enough to lift the spirits. This morning the sun is shining on the dogwood and a white/green miscanthus variegatus outside my kitchen window. Sorry, posted that twice. Too much cider last night. Hick, hick! Two of my by Verdun

28/11/2012 09:08:03

by Lowenna

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