25 x Cornus Sanguinea Bareroot hedging 60-90cm

Orange Dogwood or Cornus Sanguinea is mostly grown for its orange coloured stems that provides a bright flash of colour in autumn and winter.

Dogwoods are commonly grown for their coloured stems and provide a bright flash of colour in Autumn and Winter. We have several varieties but they all have similar habits - creamy, white flowers in spring, followed by blue/white berries, with oval dark green leaves, which redden in Autumn, and then fall to reveal attractive brightly coloured stems. They look great with other species in a mixed hedge or standing on their own. Dogwoods are very hardy and do well in full sun or partial shade and especially in moist soil. They are also very good in front of an evergreen hedge where normally nutrients, water and sunlight would be in short supply. Robins and mistle thrushes love the berries in late Summer/early Autumn.

To get the brightest coloured stems, Dogwoods should be pruned in the first year, but after that, before they bud (February/March) cut them down to a woody base within 4" of the ground every year, feed and water well and you will be rewarded with bright new shoots. Old plants can be regenerated by cutting out the old wood from the centre of the plant.