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Posted by jasonkay z5 IL (My Page) on Fri, Dec 9, 05 at 17:48
| I'm planning to cut down a common buckthorn in my backyard and replace it with a flowering dogwood. However, I'd like to know if anthracnose is a problem in the Chicago area, and if there are any resistant cultivars that people can recommend.
I'd like to plant one of the resistant native species but my wife has her heart set on something with the classic dogwood flowers. How much of a risk am I facing if I plant flowering dogwood, and would I be better off with a kousa dogwood (that has a similar flower)?
Thanks for any info anyone can provide. |
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RE: Flowering Dogwood
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| I'm in the Northwest suburbs and have had a pink flowering dogwood in my yard for at least 15 years. However, I had a few failures before I finally got one to grow. There has been no disease at all with the tree. The ones that failed were purchased from catalogs. I got this one at a nursery and it was about 4 ft tall if I remember right. I'd suggest planting it in as protected a place as possible and give it acid fertilizer. I also saw a white flowering dogwood in a far Northern suburb that seemed to be doing well. |
RE: Flowering Dogwood
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| I planted a white flowering dogwood last year in the city in full sun and it's doing fantastic, a $20 impulse buy at Home Depot, it outperformed most of my nursery trees, in fact! |
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