Usually the harder a plant is pruned the bushier it will be. Hedging - As a general rule, plants grown for hedging need pruning to encourage side branching. We will send out a planting guide with your order, you also can find a guide to planting here. The recommended amount for RootGrow for an order will be shown in your shopping basket. To calculate the number of plants needed for a length of hedging, click on Planting Distance Calculator above. Planting closer will mean the plants will grow together and form a hedge quicker, but requires more plants. We recommend planting Cornelian Cherry in a single row between 60cm/2ft apart and 90cm/3ft apart: Planting Distances for planting as a Hedge All fully qualified and insured.Cornelian Cherry, Cornus mas (Hedging, Shrubs) > Hedging > Buckingham Nurseries Ltd The long established garden army team have been busy pruning and clearing all winter and are now taking bookings for garden makeovers and tidy ups in 2016/17, followed by regular maintenance visits. If you are a regular client you will know how important it is to book your pruning slots well in advance! A consultancy with Cathie may be just the help you need to get started this year and can be given as a gift too.
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Cathie’s Mobile Gardening School and Cathie’s Garden Army These are trees and are only pruned for shape if necessary.Ĭornus mas is an interesting specimen with yellow fluffy flowers that come out in early SpringĬornus canandensis is a little beauty and can be seen clothing the ground in a woodland setting, it has the same flowers as it’s larger cousins but is a ground cover. They are at their most magnificent in May. At Squire’s in Milford you will see the National collection of Cornus kousa, the flowering dogwoods. The dogwoods are only one type of Cornus. Nothing gets wasted! Cornus is a diverse Genus My prunings will be used as pea supports and cut up for kindling bundles used to light the woodburner next year. They need to establish a good root system first.ĭogwoods can be propagated by hardwood cuttings in the winter as all my students will testify. New plants should be allowed to establish for a year or two before pruning so don’t cut them right to the ground in the first year. Either remove and replant or follow option 3 to encourage new growth. If it hasn’t ever been pruned you may shock it and it could die. If you are looking at a really old plant as you read this, don’t be tempted to just cut everything off. This should be done every year in March just as the buds start to grow. Cut the branches near to the ground and you will be rewarded with lots of young growth and subsequently gorgeous colour next Winter. Prune down to the ground? This is the preferred method and you will see this done in my garden and at Wisley too. Prune half the stems to the ground? This is a good idea if you want to retain some height in the early part of the year and those that are left can be pruned next year. Trim like a hedge? No, no, no!! This is how the local authorities often prune and it only really works on the wild dogwood in a native hedge and not in a formal flower bed.
So how do we deal with them?ĭo not prune at all? This is not an option and whilst ‘Midwinter Fire’ can be left a couple of years between prunings they need annual attention.
The stem colour comes from the young growth so they need regular pruning. They are truly stunning plants but can look a bit boring in the Summer and truly dreadful if left untouched. The Pruning Dilemma….Ĭornus alba ‘Sibirica’ is a wonderful bright red, ‘Stolonifera’ is yellow and Cornus sanguinea “Midwinter Fire’ is ablaze with orange and yellow stems throughout the winter months. Any visitors to Wisley in recent months will have observed the fiery spectacle around the lake compiled completely of coloured stems. I visit many gardens where they have never been pruned and they can really look dreadful. An unusual month to look at these colourful winter plants but the pruning is very important if we are to retain their coloured stems every year.
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