Cornus sanguinea - Common Dogwood Plants

Cornus sanguinea or Common Dogwood

Cornus sanguinea - the common english dogwood - is a large deciduous shrub with red/green stems in spring, white flowers in summer and black fruit in September and October. Cornus sanguinea makes a great hedge plant, and is a pretty fundamental component of a classic mixed native hedge.  It is the case with most native plants it has adapted to grow in almost any soil but like every dogwood Cornus sanguinea. The name Dogwood comes from the Saxon Dagwood or "skewer-wood". The stems of Common Dogwood are very straight, can be sharpened easily and are ideal as skewers for your home made barbeques during those long hot English summers we keep having....

Cornus sanguinea is a bit too untidy to make a specimen shrub but it will happily keep its own in hedges from 1 to 4 metres tall.