Dogwood Hedging & Shrubs for Sale: Cornus Varieties

Dogwood Hedging & Ornamental Shrubs

Dogwoods are grown for their range of brightly coloured bark that looks at its best around Christmas and into the new year. They are vigorous, versatile shrubs that naturally thrive in very damp soils that are prone to waterlogging, but once established are also drought tolerant and happy on a dry embankment. 

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• Red and Common dogwood are the cheapest and best for practical, solid, mixed country hedging when grown with hawthorn, hazel, wild roses, and so on.
• The colourful ones below are intended for use as ornamental shrubs. They should be hard pruned every year when they are settled in:
• Elegantissima, Gouchaultii, Midwinter Fire, Sibirica and Spaethii have bright red and/or orange bark. 
• Kesselringii (dark purple) and Flaviramea (gold) provide extra variety/contrast.

Cornus Mas, Cornelian Cherry, doesn't have colourful bark, and is attractive as a small, bushy tree with attractive edible berries. It can be grown as a hedge plant or shrub as well.

Browse our range of hedging plants, or our more ornamental garden shrubs.

Spacing: Dogwoods in a mixed country hedge go at 3 plants per metre single row or 5 in a double row. 

The ornamentals can be spaced looser at 50-60cm apart for neon avenues in winter. They should settle in for about two years, only trim off whippy growth in winter, and then be coppiced close to the ground every year in Spring for the best brightly coloured new bark the following winter. 

The planting and delivery season for bareroot Dogwood hedge plants is between November and April.

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