| Description | Summer Dreams Dogwood (Cornus) is a variegated dogwood selection with clean foliage and compact form. |
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| Pronunciation | (KOR-nus)(AL-ba) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-7 |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, some shade in warmer zones |
| Moisture | average to moist |
| Soil & Site | average to moist |
| Flowers | white (flat topped cymes) bloom in the late spring |
| Fruit | white drupes |
| Leaves | simple, opposite, ovate to elliptic, have an irregular white margin with green centers and maroon high lights in the fall |
| Stems | red |
| Dimensions | 4-6 feet tall by 6-8 foot spread. to large for foundation plantings, use on corner plantings or shrub borders |
| Maintenance | I like to cut out 1/2 to a 1/3 of the old stems and cut the remaining stems back 50%. The plant can also be sheared down to 6 inches. Both of these methods will promote new colorful red stems |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Native Site | Siberia to the Korean peninsula |
| Cultivar Origin | Selected by Roy Klehm for it's clean foliage, bold variegation and compact, even, mounded form. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #175-Dogwoods (Paul Cappiello and Don Shadow), Beaver Creek Nursery, Illinois (USA) |
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