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Cornus alternifolia 'W. Stackman'

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago



Cornus a. 'W. Stackman' trademarked as Golden Shadows.

Installed in my back yard back in 2010 as a 4' plant. Now at about 7'. New foliage growth is green with a gold margin but the gold fades to a creamy white when the growth starts to harden off. Flower presentation is a bit lost competing against the foliage.

Has performed admirably albeit slowly and managed temps below -20 this past winter in 5A.

Tried to upload foliage close-up to no avail. Anyway, interesting small tree for the right space.

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  • 7 years ago

    Nice! That’s one of the better specimens I’ve seen. Cold hardiness shouldn’t be problem, but too much sun wreaked havoc on my only effort with this tree at the old place. I’ve had two places: old and new.

    Comments (7)

    • 7 years ago

      try the close up now???


      z5 is about half the us ... where??? .. with a bit more specificity


      thx for the pix...


      ken

      KD Landscape thanked ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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      7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago


      @Ken_adrian .... Here is the close-up of the newly emerged growth. Still could not upload the pic showing new growth and old growth....will try that one again later.

      As @maackia mentioned the plant takes a beating if it's in full sun. This one gets about 4 hours of direct sun.

      Chuckling about my lack of Zone 5 specificity. Zone 5 does not exactly narrow it. Zone 5A about 40 miles due south of Chicago.

    • 7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      I’m not sure on the hardiness on this one. I don’t think it’s as cold hardy as the species can be. The last two winters have damaged some of the plants I know of up here in the MSP area. Even the well established ones. Perhaps there are other too like the canker problem Or just General weakness from the variegation.

      KD Landscape thanked pennlake
    • 7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      Pagoda dogwood's one of my favorites -- here's one I planted:

      KD Landscape thanked bengz6westmd
    • 7 years ago

      Beng, do you have issues with deer where you live? My past attempts with Pagoda have been short circuited by relentless browsing and rubbing. Yours is doing well.

    • 7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      maackia, deer eat the pagodas relentlessly in the wild here, so much that they rarely live to maturity. Fortunately, they mostly avoid mine on my lot. Here's a nearby volunteer, prb'ly an offspring from the above (the seeds are very viable), under a sugar maple:

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