93+ Gray Twig Dogwood

Red twig dogwood will brighten your winter landscaping with its bright red branches. The shrubs actually can provide year round interest.

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Gray twig dogwood!!!

Namely the bush s red twigs which are brightest from late winter to early spring. Gray dogwood can however become aggressive in the landscape. Also known as northern swamp dogwood gray dogwood is a deciduous shrub that forms thickets as the underground rhizomes spread. Other species can be quite different.

The state tree of virginia the flowering dogwood has conspicuous white to light yellow flowers that offer magnificent blooms in spring. The gray dogwood is a forage plant for white tailed deer. The dark green leaves are lance shaped and turn purplish red in the fall. The berries appear before most other dogwoods making it popular with the squirrels and over 100 bird species that eat the fruit.

It forms a dense thicket providing cover and nesting sites for wildlife. Although its suckering spreading habit makes it impractical for formal plantings it can be incorporated into the shrub border and useful as a mass planting. Grey twig dogwood is a deciduous shrub with ornamental features. Your gray dogwood has a lot to recommend it.

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