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 Dogwood  Redtwig Ivory Halo   Cornus alba

 

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Categories: Shrub / Small Tree

Zone:  3-4-5-6-7

Height:  5' to 6'    6' wide

Full Sun to shade

 

Description

 In 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.

 

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