Red Dogwood Trees For Sale - Cornus Florida
Red Flowering Dogwood is an upright, ornamental, and deciduous tree. Bold red flowers brighten your landscape in the spring.Are you looking for easy care without sacrificing high impact? This is a low-maintenance plant you will be proud to have at your home. The bark changes its color and texture over time, beginning smooth and becoming scalier and gray brown as it ages. Its flowers bloom in the spring and develop into small red berries.
Plant Details - Red Flowering Dogwood
Family: Cornaceae
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Water Needs: Moist
Height: 15 – 30 ft.
Spread: 15 – 30 ft.
Growth Rate: Fast
Bloom Time: Spring
Flower Color: Red
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies
Landscape Uses and Maintenance - Red Flowering Dogwood
Red Flowering Dogwood has bright, showy red flowers (bracts) that are attractive and stand out in the landscape. This is a head turner for sure! edges of your garden beds, or to add plenty of curb appeal to your home. It will create shade.
This tree is attractive to pollinators and wildlife due to its nectar-filled flowers and seeds. Birds and various small mammals will eat the seeds.Prune off this tree's damaged, diseased, decaying, or rubbing branches. Open wounds allow fungi and other pathogens to enter your tree and cause disease. Prune in late winter. Avoid pruning this tree in the spring as this is when it blooms.
Water thoroughly from the time you first plant your tree until it is well established. Water this tree during drought, especially during the hot summer months.
Noteworthy Characteristics of Red Flowering Dogwood
Did you know that the Red Flowering Dogwood flowers aren’t red? The true flowers are at the center of the “flower”. The “petals” are a type of modified leaf.This tree, along with other members of the Dogwood family, is a host plant to the Cecropia silk moth and the Spring and Summer Azure butterflies. TN Nursery offers premium quality trees at low grower prices.
