Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree Care

Stellar pink dogwood is a charming multi season tree that will dress up your entryway garden patio area or any of the beds around your home that could use a little sparkle.

Stellar pink dogwood tree care. Breeding efforts by dr. Dogwoods are forest understory trees that grow best in partially shady sites with regular moisture and an. Growth habit is somewhat upright. Beyond this little pruning should be necessary.

Dogwood is easy to grow requiring sun and moist soil. Dogwoods do fine in full sun to. How to plant care for a pink dogwood tree. The stellar pink dogwood grows into a small tree between 15 and 20 feet tall and just as wide.

The stellar series blooms slightly later and lacks fruit. The pink blossoms are very delicately colored and bloom so profusely that the tree looks like a pink cloud. Flowering dogwood cornus florida is a small maryland native tree with white or pink flower bracts in the spring colorful foliage in the fall and berries that support wildlife. 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.

Birds are also attracted to this spectacular tree. The trees are a cross between c. Flowering cornus dogwood trees are grown for their showy coloured bracts in late spring and early summer. When young it is vase shaped but as it matures it takes on a broad pyramidal habit with a flat top and with wide sweeping branches that give a graceful profile to the tree.

Shrubby cornus alba c. Since flowering dogwood is valued for its horizontal branching patterns take care to prune away storm damaged limbs that would mar the plant s appearance. If you notice limbs rubbing against one another you can prune to. Kousa the japanese dogwood.

Pink varieties of flowering dogwood cornus florida such as rubra and prairie pink brighten the garden each spring by filling their branches with. Rutgers university reports that the original stellar pink dogwood was 23 at twenty years of age. Florida a native of the american southeastern states and c. It can be expected to grow to 20 25 tall with a similar spread at maturity.

Large pink blossoms open in the spring attracting butterflies. Stellar pink dogwood is a beautiful specimen tree. It is hardy to usda zone 6. This beautiful tree is the perfect lawn specimen to grace any garden big or small or to fringe a wooded area of deciduous.

Hybrid flowering dogwood stellar pink cornus x rutgersensis rutgan cornus stellar pink genus. Flowering dogwood cornus florida. In summer the disease resistant foliage stays clean and healthy looking and in fall the leaves turn garnet. Careful pruning can help return a storm damaged tree to its attractive shape.

This dependable hybrid dogwood tree will delight you with an abundance of starry pink flowers in late spring. This varied group of plants give great garden value. Dead branches can be pruned off at any time. In fall the leaves turn a fabulous purple red mixture.