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Pruning Dogwood
Michael G Hope
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Planted 2varietes of Dogwood & know they require being cut back or pruned !
Not sure when or how much one cuts them back , they are about 4 ft Tall now
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If they are the ones grown for their colourful stems you prune them in spring when new leaf buds emerge. You then cut them back to one or two pairs of leaf buds and give them a good drink and a feed of pelleted chicken manure to encourage all the lovely new growth which will give you next winter's colourful stems display.
If you have cornus Midwinter Fire, you should just cut the stems back by half and remove the thinnest, spindliest stems back to on eor two buds. They can sulk if pruned too hard.