Has anyone had any luck planting Red Osier, Silky, or Grey Dogwood in Tennessee? Ive read a lot about it being a great browse resource for deer. Zone 7 is pushing it for some dogwoods as they are use to the more frigid tempatures. Ive planted some over the winter, gonna see how well they do.
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MickThompson
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Yes, but I can't remember which one. Be prepared to protect them for the first couple years from the deer
I took a bunch of red osier cuttings and pulled some small trees with roots from our WI farm and tried starting them here in southern middle TN. Most cuttings rooted but quickly died. A few survived. The rooted trees survived the longest but died once mid/late summer drought hit everything died. I just don't have swampy enough ground to keep them. If you have wet enough ground I believe they'd do great.
Not exactly sure why, but we lost several native dogwoods on our farm the last couple years. I planted a red dogwood bare root in my yard about ten years ago. It was doing well, then died about two and a half years ago.
DoubleRidge
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Thats interesting you say that....I've recently noticed several dead dogwoods on our place...in an area where they have always flourished? But a quick google search shows we're not the only one who has noticed this....but need to research more.
I hate that we lost them, going to miss seeing them come springtime. Aside from the red dogwood that i planted, all the trees we lost were here when we bought the farm.
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DoubleRidge
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Same for us....the ones I'm talking about are all native...actually in an area the Forester we worked with mapped as "old field growth"...scattered dogwood, cedar and poplar...earliest aerial images we can find are from the 1950s and it shows the area as fields....hate to see those dogwood die off...just noticed this past fall several of the larger ones have bark and limbs falling off....guess in the spring I'll check and see if there are any younger survivors.
I planted ten 1' - 2 ' Gray Dogwood seedling trees from the MO Forestry nursery in 2011. The are growing well here in NE Carroll County. I have since cut a few down as I got tired of the tremendous root spouting new trees. They will make a thicket if you protect them when they are young.
Here's an article on the decline of Dogwood trees.
https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/landscaping/the-decline-of-the-flowering-dogwood/
https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/landscaping/the-decline-of-the-flowering-dogwood/
