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Dogwood - Common (Cornus sanguinea)
£0.89
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Minimum order value (all plants) is £300+VAT
Free Delivery over £300+VAT excl Highlands and Islands
Please order plants in multiples of 25
Key Features
Common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) is
- Suitable as a hedge plant or woodland shrub
- Native (the only native Cornus)
- Deciduous
- Flowering
- Red stems
- Safe to plant near livestock (non-toxic)
Grown on our farm in Herefordshire. Buy with confidence - read our customer reviews.
The specifications shown below are our normal range but we often have additional options. If there is something that you are looking for, it's often worth contacting us.
Please contact us if you would prefer to order on the phone or have any questions or to discuss a discount for larger quantities.
Full Product Description
Our range of bare root Cornus sanguinea plants (Common dogwood)
Cornus sanguinea bare root hedging plants or shrubs are grown from seed in one season. Seed is sown in spring and then the plants are ready to be sold from the following November through to April.
We always have several batches of seed of Cornus sanguinea including UK provenance and also some of the highest quality imported seed so if it is particularly important to you to have UK provenance please give us a call. This is a blog on seed provenance.
Common Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) Summary
Dogwoods are normally grown for their attractive upright, bright coloured stems but they also provide quite a lot of wildlife value. This variety is native and has orange/red stems.
In spring and summer, it has large ovate, smooth edged, dull, dark green leaves, borne opposite each other and held on purplish stems. Flat clusters of tiny white flowers, which turn into black berries in autumn, are carried on older wood. Leaves turn red before falling, exposing the bright straight stems. Dogwoods look great planted in a group on damp edges of woodland (where they can benefit from some sunlight) and are often included in wildlife friendly hedgerows. The brightest stem colour is achieved when dogwoods are planted in full sun.
In addition to this native variety, we have a Dogwood with red stems (Cornus alba) and Cornus alba Sibirica which has very dark red stems, both often used in landscaping schemes rather than farm hedgerows where the native Cornus sanguinea is more popular.
Soil and Situation
Dogwoods will grow in most soils with a preference for moist clay to loamy soils, though it will grow (but more slowly) on limestone soils.
Leaves, fruit and flowers
The leaves are opposite and up to 3” long with smooth sides and curved veins, mid green in colour in spring and summer and turning deep red in autumn. Nectar and pollen rich flowers are tiny with 4 creamy coloured petals, held in clusters up to 2” wide and are insect pollinated. The leaves are eaten by caterpillars and the black fruits (dogberries) are eaten by a wide range of birds and mammals.
Eventual height and growth rate
Dogwood is a medium to large shrub with an eventual height of up to 5m. New stems grow quickly, with brighter colour, if they are cut down to about 4” from the soil level.
Also known as bloody dogwood and bloodtwig dogwood. Cornaceae family
Delivery Information
Free Delivery
For deliveries of orders over £300 + VAT, (which is our minimum order value) we have free delivery to all mainland areas nationwide. If you are in the Scottish Highlands or any of the Islands, please email us or call us and we will quote you a delivery charge which we will subsidise.
All orders are despatched on pallets and will be delivered to the kerbside. We will email you to tell you when your order has been despatched and that email will contain a link so that you can track your delivery.
You can request a specific delivery date when you place your order and we will do our very best to accommodate that date but cannot be held responsible if we do not meet it.
Collections from Ross-on-Wye
You can collect your plants by arrangement with our office team. Please ring us on 01989 552028 to agree a collection date. The postcode for collections is HR9 7TF.
As a trade nursery, we normally despatch stock unbagged (packed horizontally on pallets) but we can offer two bagging options.
Bagging Options
We have two options for despatching plants in bags (you do not need to have them bagged but it is advisable if there is any delay in planting and where you have large quantities, delay in planting some is inevitable).
- Very heavy duty black bags - normally used by farmers, landowners, landscapers etc
- Co-extruded bags which are white on the outside, to reflect sunlight, and black inside, to retain moisture on the roots - normally used by foresters.
In both cases, there is a considerable labour cost to us in putting stock into bags, and then the air in the bags takes up a considerable amount of space on the pallet which means that we get many fewer plants onto a pallet compared with unbagged stock eg for 1+0 seedlings instead of approx. 10,000 plants per pallet of unbagged stock, we'd only get approx. 5,000 plants per pallet if they are bagged. There's also a significant labour cost in putting plants into bags compared with loose packing on a pallet (which is the normal method for nursery to nursery sales). Given that we pay the delivery cost on most orders, supplying stock in bags is a significant extra cost for us for some customers and hence we make a modest charge.
You can specifically request black or white bags on the website after you add plants to your shopping basket. Here is a link to the page Bagging Service for bare root plants for farms and forestry – rjtreesandhedging. Please order the same quantity as the number of plants you are buying - the pricing for bagging is per plant rather than per bag.