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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

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

is 25 meters. Hello tommysmith, It may not be to your taste, but Photinia x fraseri is known for fast growth. I've also found dogwoods such as Cornus sanguinea, to grow very quickly. They are supposed to prefer moist soil, but even in my dry, free

Plant bare-root roses in well-prepared groundTrim away unwanted suckers growing around the base of treesClear borders and rake up leaves before bulbs start poking through the groundDig over gaps in borders, taking time to pick out roots of perennial

/108.html   Gardengirl, I grow several varieties of dogwood ....those grown for their coloured wood ......and cut back to the ground every year. Then I feed and stand back. Keep well watered, if possible. You should get 6' straight coloured stems

, we got plenty of fruit but how much crab apple jelly can one eat.You could try Dogwood "Cornus" they come in quite a few colours, they will be all leaf in summer but when the leaves drop you have wonderfully coloured stems all winter, then you chop

out this weekend.  I'm sure it's something obvious   but I'd like a second opinion!     This is a dogwood which started out looking great but over the last couple of days has gone to look really sad!         This is a fuschia I overwintered.  I

is helpful. i must say this is by far the prettiest tree i have ever seen and i am desperate to get my own growing! any help would be brill, thanks chaps. I couldn't find an acer called 'full moon' (there is a flowering dogwood though), but there are several

but worried about the roots greeting into the French drains, have also just purchased red dogwood as have read they can help.Any ideas? Any  tree will be thirsty but will obviously have quite a lot of root. As I posted on another thread, I know someone who had

of growing anything! There's quite a lot of clay underneath the top soil we put in. I have some heucheras and geranium and they seem to be fine but I will look into the bigger plants you mentioned for a bit of structure.Thank you! Sounds ideal for dogwoods