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Oriental Dogwoods
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Posted by rstanny NW Florida (My Page) on Sat, Mar 22, 08 at 23:38
| Has anyone here had success growing the Kousa and Kousa hybrid Dogwoods? Some varieties are becoming available here at quite reasonable prices. I bought a five-foot Celestial a couple of weeks back for around $16. Others are still quite expensive. I've had my eye on a Venus with flower buds and a price tag of $79. Seems to me some of the hybrids are crosses with Pacific Dogwoods, which aren't supposed to be suitable for eastern states. |
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RE: Oriental Dogwoods
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| I am trying them for the first time myself. So far so good. I have a hybrid, "Lemon" something or other. Made it through the season, leafing out now. Mississippi coast Terry |
RE: Oriental Dogwoods
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I've been looking for a few ornamental trees and Kousa keeps coming up. Also interested in a weeping cherry (Snow Fountain) not finding any though - at least not local.
Sorry, no suggestions of how well they do - I'm just wondering too how well they would do. |
RE: Oriental Dogwoods
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| I now have two young kousa-florida hybrids of Big Box origin, one white and one pink, and both did quite well through last summer in what I would ignorantly speculate are fairly ideal conditions for down here (moist, black soil and shaded by a windbreak of River Birch to their south). Foliage held up well in the heat and turned a nice red in the fall. The white one has a flower bud and the pink one has four (Hooah!). Stay tuned, I guess. I may try one in a sunnier--but still moist--location this year if I see one I like that isn't too expensive to lose. UF Horticulture Dept. says it's hard to have too many of them. Never did buy the Venus with all the flower buds I was looking at last spring. Probably just as well considering what they were asking for it. |
RE: Oriental Dogwoods
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| About three years ago at the PJC Flower Show in Milton they were giving away a free dogwood. I took one and found out once I got home and got them separated that I actually had 10. I planted them in 1 gallon pots, as they were only about a foot high. Gave half to my mom and I kept half. Turns out that they were Chinese dogwoods. I don't like them. They sprout from the roots like crepe myrtles, have a bushy habit rather than the loose layered look of the native Florida dogwoods. I gave all mine away last fall--they were already 8' tall, still in the pots, grown through them in fact into the ground. Out of the five I gave away, four of them lived I'm told. So, yes, I would say they're easy to grow here. I live about 35 miles north of Pensacola, FL |
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