Silky Dogwood Bush

The vigorous growth of silky dogwood is optimized in moist to wet sites but it adapts readily to dry soil conditions in fields. Where present it is likely growing in fairly close association with the somewhat similar red osier dogwood cornus sericea which is just about everywhere.

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Silky dogwood bush

Nature hills nursery carries the widest variety of plants for sale you won t find anywhere else. Silky dogwood represents a group of shrub dogwoods native to ohio including alternate leaf dogwood roughleaf dogwood gray dogwood and bloodtwig dogwood that have a strongly multistemmed growth habit and are always found in nature as a shrub rather than a tree. Dogwood shrubs are some of the most useful garden plants around.

Shop cold stream farm today. The silky dogwood is a common medium shrub found natively along streams and wet areas. A midwest native dogwood found in damp to wet sites.

The creamy white flower clusters the nectar is a favorite of butterflies appear in late spring and precede the bluish berry clusters. A great 4 season plant for naturalizing in mass and in the shrub border especially in moist sites. Around 6 10 tall wide.

In the home landscape silky dogwood bushes work well in moist naturalized areas and do a good job at stabilizing the soil in erosion prone sites. Reddish brown year round and later gray. Silky dogwood is a large to medium sized native shrub with creamy white spring flowers dark green foliage and reddish stems and burgundy fall color.

The silky dogwood shrub is a hardy bush that offers creamy white flowers and is great for four season locations. Also known a swamp dogwood silky dogwood is a mid size shrub that grows wild along streams ponds and other wetlands across much of the eastern half of the united states. Silky dogwood is the least common of minnesota s native dogwoods and is only occasional in open wetlands and forest fringes in roughly the southeast quarter of the state.

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