Comments on: Forcing Red-Twig Dogwood

By: mynortherngarden

mynortherngarden — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Woodbury gardener: You can always try! I don’t know what you’ve got, but if it has some buds on it, you may well get leaves or a bloom. Your mother can always find the blog by googling “my northern garden.” It usually comes up at the top of that search.

Mary

By: Gardener wanna-be in Woodbury

Gardener wanna-be in Woodbury — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:19:20 +0000

I was very excited to try get my red dogwood to bloom. I went outside, pruning shears in hand only to realize that I don’t have a red dogwood in my yard. The bush that I thought was a red dogwood is really brown. I know that it flowers in the spring though. Do you think if I follow the same protocol it will bloom too? I’m thinking of inviting my family for Easter and I would love to have it as a center piece.

Love your blog. I was trying to tell my mother, who winters in Florida, how to get to it but she was having some trouble.

By: mynortherngarden

mynortherngarden — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:47:30 +0000

Neza: Thanks for the information. The Purdue fact sheet implies that flowers will form if there are buds–and there are some small buds at the ends of the branches. It may be those will be leaves, not flowers. We’ll find out in a few weeks. By the way—love the music on your blog.

Mary

By: Neza

Neza — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:39:32 +0000

When forcing Red Twig Dogwood, you may get some small leaves, but no flowers. You would need something that already has the flower buds formed, like Magnolia, Forsythia, or possibly another early bloomer, like plum.

It’s a good experiment, and I enjoy doing that too. Another one that puts out a lot of leaves, (but no flowers) would be lilac.

From The Rock and Roll Gardener,
Mpls/ St. Paul

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:28:05 +0000

I have always wanted to do something like that, I think i may just get to it ! .. and it is “pop” for Canadians too ! LOL
Joy