Little is known of its origins in Britain, except that is has been naturalised here for several hundred years and is native to Southern Europe and Turkey. Did You Know?įormerly classified as Cornus mascula, we say that it has a technical RHS Award of Garden Merit because four of its cultivars do. Just to be clear, this dogwood should not be hard pruned down to ground level every spring as you would with an ornamental dogwood like midwinter fire, although it is fine to hard prune it if it gets overgrown. They won't flower much in more than partial shade, so if you are planting them as a specimen, the more sun the better. Colour: Yellow flowers in Jan/Feb - Marchĭogwoods are tough shrubs that thrive in damp soils near water, but once established are also fine in dry, poor soil.
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It can reach 5 metres if it is pruned into a tree, but about 3 metres is typical for a shrub in the wild.īrowse all of our other varieties of Dogwood, our selection of shrub hedging or our full range of hedging plants.ĭelivery season: Cornelian Cherries are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive. All of which make it one of those "three tricks in one" garden plants that help create year round interest. The leaves turn a lovely reddish-purple in the autumn to finish off the show: it doesn't have brightly coloured new bark, but mature plants have moderately interesting, flaky brown bark. The flowers ripen into bright red, acidic, edible cherry-like fruits, which give this tree its common name of Cornelian Cherry (Cornel is another word for dogwood). It looks fantastic when the morning or afternoon sun is behind it and shines through the branches.
It flowers early in the year (which is great for bees), usually starting in February, sometimes January, with loads of small, yellow, witch hazel-like flowers appearing on the bare branches.
Cornus mas: Bareroot Cornelian Cherry HedgingĬornus mas, the Cornelian Cherry, or edible dogwood, is a small tree or large shrub and is ideal as either a specimen or as part of a mixed hedge.
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