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Dogwood Redtwig Ivory Halo Cornus alba
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| DescriptionIn spring you get fresh white-edged leaves. Summer brings small cream-colored blossoms, followed by blue fruit. Autumn regales you with reddish-purple foliage, and winter wows you with bright red stems. It reaches 5 to 6 feet high and nearly as wide. The little creamy blooms in summer followed by small blue fruit. Autumn brings brilliant foliage color, a deep red-splashed burgundy to purple that makes the blue berries stand out. Prune it back hard at the end of winter, to within 2 or 3 buds of the base of each branch. Then give it some well-rotted manure, and mulch it well. T Space shrubs 4 to 5 feet apart in full sun and any well-drained soil. |