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Blossom
color: White
Bloom time: June
Fruit:
Dark blue, edible. Good for attracting birds and making jellies
and juice.
Size: 15' tall and wide
Shape: Upright growth with horizontal branches
Uses: Accent or specimen plant, or shrub
border or hedge. Attracts birds.
Hardiness: Zones 3-8
Native: to North America
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A very ornamental native shrub with branches that grow horizontally.
This gives the plant a pagoda-type appearance. Its clusters
of flowers in early summer turn into clusters of blue-black
fruits in August that birds find irresistable. Like all dogwoods,
Pagoda Dogwood likes moist soil and light to full shade, although
it can tolerate full sun if given consistent moisture. Grows
up to 15-feet tall and wide. Healthy, hardy and easy to grow.
Self pollinating.
What you'll receive:
2-year, field-grown plants with 12 to 18-inch long stems and
shipped bareroot (no soil or pot)
and dormant (no foliage). Learn more about
our plants.
Shipping: 1-4 plants=$11.00; add $1.50 for
each additional plant over 4 plants. Shipped UPS Ground in
spring from early April through mid May.
[Catalog #FS11]
About Dogwoods: Dogwoods got their name
from the Middle Ages when the wood was used as skewers or
"dogs." But, today these plants are widely used
in landscapes for their beautiful flowers, showy fruit, winter
color and attractive foliage. Birds relish the fruit and often
eat every last one off a plant as soon as they're ripe. There
are 17 species of dogwood native to North America and they
range in size from small to large shrubs and small trees.
Dogwood berries are eaten by over 98 species of birds! These
include: bluebirds, brown thrashers, cardinals, cedar waxwings,
flickers, gray catbird, mockingbirds, robins, song sparrows,
thrushes, vireos and woodpeckers.
Grows in full sun to full shade in average garden soil that
has consistent moisture. Please note that if grown in full
sun, this plant needs moist soil. It grows in the wild as
an "understory" plant so is often shaded by taller
trees. Tolerates wet soils. Space 5-feet apart. Has upright
growth with horizontal branching.
What's a "bareroot" plant?
 "Bareroot"
is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A
bareroot plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not
actively growing). See the photo to the right that shows what
a bareroot rose looks like. The bareroot plants that we ship
to you were harvested in the fall and placed in cold storage
over the winter to keep them dormant. In the spring, we ship
the bareroot plants to our customers, from early April through
mid May.
Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions
with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out
of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water
so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak
for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting
instructions with photos are available on our planting
shrubs page.
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