Cornus alba / Dogwood

I'm not really sure what you call "dogwood", but if you English-speaking people live in a temperate environment, you must have similar bushes. Here, we call it "cornouiller".

"Cornus alba" is a spontaneous plant and there are also many garden cultivars. I have a couple of them, but the wild species is the one I prefer to work with.

This one was a "gift from the blackbirds" that I collected in the "lawn () and put in a pot. It's about 15 cm high now (6 inches ?).

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It's particularly nice in autumn. Last year's colours :



It's small, but I like it.

Hello Alain. Very sweet little tree you have there and also free . Our native Cornus is sanguinea and the term dogwood comes from dagwood and the very hard wood was used for daggers or skewers.

Very nice! It's autumn color is so beautiful!

will baddeley wrote:Hello Alain. Very sweet little tree you have there and also free . Our native Cornus is sanguinea and the term dogwood comes from dagwood and the very hard wood was used for daggers or skewers.

You must be right : when I first "named" it, I thoght that cornus sanguinea was the species with very red branches in winter, which is actually "Cornus alba 'Sibirica'".

And thanks for the word history, that's very interesting.

This is a nice little tree..good find!! here the leaves are big on dogwoods but the flowers are pretty.. i never thought about bonsaing one,, something to look at.. looks good take care john