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Photo courtesy of Steve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database .
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. The vigorous growth of Silky Dogwood is optimized in moist to wet sites, but it adapts readily to dry soil conditions in fields and fencerows as well. Colorful summer fruits offer its best ornamental and wildlife asset, while its thin twigs of winter cast a reddish-purple hue to the landscape. Silky Dogwood grows to 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide under optimum conditions as a single specimen, although suckering may add to its width over time.
Planting Requirements - Silky Dogwood prefers moist to wet sites in soils of various composition and pH. It adapts to dry soils, poor soils, or soils that are wet in winter and spring, and dry in summer and autumn. It is found in zones 4 to 8, in full sun to partial shade.
Leaf Identification - Leaves of Silky Dogwood are opposite, ovate to elliptical, and have prominent veins that run parallel to the smooth, non-wavy leaf margins. Autumn coloration is often green to chartreuse, but can be reddish-yellow, reddish-orange, or reddish-purple in good years.
Other Identification Features - The mid-spring perfect flowers of Silky Dogwood are flat-topped, and white but without the large, showy bracts that are characteristic of Flowering Dogwood. The blue-black fruits mature in mid-summer and are quickly consumed by birds, squirrels, and other woodland mammals.
As with most of the "shrub Dogwoods" that occur in the fields, forest edges, stream borders, and fencerows of the eastern United States, the growth habit is usually an upright, dense shrub in youth, which becomes a spreading, sprawling, open and loose collection of mature branches and vigorous suckers with age. Winter twigs are thin and often reddish-purple to bronzed, and in the case of Silky Dogwood may or may not have stalked buds (lower right). Branches have beige vertical streaks on a reddish-purple inner bark, which becomes a blocky, gray-brown bark at maturity, very similar to that of Flowering Dogwood.
Silky Dogwood Trees... The trees are between 12" and 24" tall when shipped... And shipped Bare Root...
Shipping and planting times are winter and spring months. Please choose from following months: November thru April. But we will make exceptions with limited warranties due to heat during shipping.
And, any tree shipped during normal green and growth months ...which is May through October is going to arrive with brown, burned leaves. They will recover and go green again, but they are going to look dead on arrival.
PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
2 Silky Dogwood Trees = $12.95 plus $9.50 s/h.
10 Silky Dogwood Trees = $33.95 plus $12.50 s/h.
25 Silky Dogwood Trees = $49.95 plus $20.00 s/h.
50 Silky Dogwood Trees = $89.95 plus $25.00 s/h.
100 Silky Dogwood Trees = $178.00 plus $32.50 s/h.
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