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Dogwood??
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Hello all,
Can anyone tell me what this shrub is? I thought it might be some kind of flowering dogwood.
I would like to prune it back a bit but think I may have left it a bit late. There are already some white flowers forming on the end of the stems. If I pruned now would I get new flowers?
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This article covers dogwoods amongst other things.
http://www.crocus.co.uk/features/_/articleid.1087/
These are grown for the leaves and the coloured stems in winter. The flowers are nothing much.
The ones known as flowering dogwoods are different species.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I am going to leave it this year and make a note to prune in feb/mar next year.
Unfortunately it doesn't really lend itself to pairing with too manymother plants due to its location against the fence. It probably only gets a few hours of evening sun and so I'm amazed it does as well as it does!
I'm with Verdun. It's only mid April. I'd cut it now , clear a decent patch around it and give it a feed and a mulch .
So would I
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Me too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
An alternative would be to take out a third to a half of the stems now so you keep the shape and the new leaves can feed the plant but you'll provoke the plant into making new shoots which will give you stem colour next winter till you can do a full prune.
An alternative would be to take out a third to a half of the stems now so you keep the shape and the new leaves can feed the plant but you'll provoke the plant into making new shoots which will give you stem colour next winter till you can do a full prune.
Whichever you do, give it some blood, fish and bone lightly forked in around its roots to encourage it.