#Arctic fire red twig dogwood full#

They can be planted in full sun or part shade. Try them in cut flower arrangements indoors, adding a branch or two to your bouquet. They bring butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden. Pretty white springtime flower clusters develop on last year's stems. These classic, natural decorations are always in style. They can also be cut and used indoors for winter and holiday décor. Cut stems can be used to great effect in urns and pots outdoors for winter and holiday decorations. The cut stems are highly desirable because of the deep, dark red stem color during the winter dormancy period. And who doesn't love the amazing bright red young stems peeking up out of a white cap of snow?Īrctic Fire® Dogwood is a winter gem. Arctic Fire® Dogwood (Cornus stolonifera 'Farrow' PP#18523) is a Proven Winners® selection that is a true dwarf of this beloved native shrub.īecause this superior nativar stays smaller than the species, you can use it throughout your landscape. Now, even if you have a small landscape, you can grow a special variety of Redosier Dogwood. You can always cut part of the stems now and use them for winter decor or outside pots.Every landscape needs a blaze of color in those long, cold days of winter. Dwarf only means it grows slower, not that it will magically stop growing when the label says.

This is how it is with plants (and why you should always be wary of labels). You might have to do this annually or simply replant with something else. See how they grow after this severe pruning. Rather than cutting 1/3rd of them out just cut them at around 8-12' tall in spring (the whole plant). Remember, no shrub stops growing and 4' for any dogwood shrub would be highly unlikely at full maturity. We've had Arctic Fire in perfect site conditions and over the course of 4 years it finally got to where we had to prune them (6' by about 5' after this time). If it has been more than a couple years to get to that point then they are probably Arctic Fire and are at the point where they will require an annual pruning.

If they grew that quickly in just a year or two I would say that yes, you did get a completely different variety. They could even share a short hassock or ottoman with a throw across it. This would be my preference, because I love being comfy as I enjoy the fire. OR you might find you would prefer two small, but really comfy chairs angled inward. Once you get your benches in place you might see if you still like the candles, one in each niche by the far wall and/or a thin fine iron table at the end of each for a cup o' Joe and maybe a book. After being extremely careful, I thought, and three fires from candles later, I highly recommend using only the battery operated ones. It could be a metal or one painted to match the main color in your room. If it is still too naked for you put the large candlesticks back and add a third that is a bit shorter. Winter, it would be gorgeous with pots of poinsettias, fire wood or pine cones spring with lilacs or cherry blossoms summer with bromeliads or red twigs from your dogwood and fall filled with pussy willows or mums. If that feels too naked for you as you wait, put the huge basket back with seasonal stuff in it. Be certain the fabric and everything else there is subtle, so it doesn't distract from your uniquely shaped and all together fantastic FP. WHILE YOU ARE WAITING to find or build the two small benches to flank it, remove all the stuff on the hearth and find or make comfy cushions for pleasant seating to visit and be warmed by the fire. Be sure you benches come no closer than a couple of inches of the hearth's edge. It is absolutely wonderful the way it is. Any light neutral from white to cream for the walls would be great. Newest stem growth will always produce the best coloring. And besides reducing the overall size of the shrub - at least temporarily - hard pruning/coppicing will also intensify the stem color. How far back you can cut your current shrubs would be easier to say had you provided photos but I'm sure you could get them down to 16-24', perhaps lower. The good news is that shrub dogwoods are very easily kept under control by hard pruning (aka coppicing or stooling) - cutting back to low woody framework annually each season, usually in late winter or early spring before new growth commences. They just don't hit some predetermined size and simply stop growing - once they achieve their 'mature' size, growth usually slows, sometimes dramatically, but woody plants never stop growing until they die.

Because they grew larger than you wanted? LOL!! No you didn't get 'ripped off' - trees and shrubs often grow larger than anticipated - the better the growing conditions, the larger they get.

Arctic fire red twig dogwood