We recommend our favourite dogwoods (Cornus) for their fiery winter stems.
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Dogwoods can be loosely divided into two groups: flowering dogwoods and dogwoods with colourful stems.
Colourful-stemmed dogwoods are upright shrubs which lose their leaves in autumn to reveal stems in warm crimsons, yellows, oranges and ochres, guaranteed to cut through any winter gloom.
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