Cornus sanguinea is the common dogwood and the native species of our hedgerows. Cornus sanguinea Midwinter Fire was discovered in a garden in Germany around 1980 and subsequently introduced as a garden plant in Boskoop in Holland around 1990. Now a long standing favourite for colour in the winter garden. Very easy to grow in most soils and sunny to semi shade locations it provides really striking orange to pink and vermilion winter stems which are the main feature of this much used plant. It is important to prune most of the stems back to near ground level in spring, on mature plants, to ensure a plentiful supply of colourful new stems. The young stems have the best colour. In addition produces good autumn leaf colour. Can be used anywhere but probably look at their best planted together or with the the red stem varieties such as Cornus alba sibirica. Midwinter Fire can easily be grown in a pot or other container. Use a good quality John Innes compost as this plant will be there a long time and peaty types of compost eventually degrade become too packed and choke the roots. Ensure you feed regularly as a hungry plant is a poor performer. We recommend Osmocote pro 8 -9 month applied in the early spring. One application gives all the nutrients the plant requires for the whole year. John Innes is a soil based compost.

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The images we use are designed to show the features that the plant is usually appreciated for. They are not representative of the size of plant you will receive. The size of the plant pot can be found in the listing title.
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