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Kentucky Trees #5: Flowering dogwood is hardy

WE ALL LIVE IN A FOREST: 1) The urban forest 2) Treeific Information, Dogwoods
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By Billy Fudge

I would like to discuss some of the issues concerning our urban forest. There are many problems facing our natural forest and the trees of which it is composed. We will discuss these problems at length in later issues.

I will begin this examination of our Urban Forest by listing several points that need to be understood prior to delving into a discussion about problems and solutions.


Trees in an Urban Forest environment are in a completely foreign setting.
  • Trees, generally speaking, are meant to live in communities with very close neighbors. To loosely quote John Donne, "no tree is an island".

  • Trees usually grow close together, competing for sunlight. They then grow tall and have small crowns relative to height.

  • Tree crowns will become larger when they become dominate over their neighbors or a neighbor succumbs to the forces of nature and vacates an area of sunlight into which neighbor's crowns can spread.

  • Tree roots, generally speaking, are located in the top 6 inches of the soil and would like to grow to a width at least equal to the width of the tree's crown.

  • Trees generally want to grow in a soil that is suitable to their needs and on a slope that is suitable to their needs as far as moisture and sunlight are concerned. They like to choose where they live so as to discourage unwanted "uppity" neighbors.
Without immediately launching ourselves into the particulars, which we will do at a later date, I think you can see that trees in an urban environment are about like you and I being forced to move above the Arctic Circle with very little preparation to survive there. If we are to survive and have a healthy life above the Arctic Circle we will need a lot of help. I believe that you can see that trees are in the "same Kayak", so to speak.

TREEIFFIC INFORMATION

Flowering Dogwood has for generations and continues to be one of our favorite trees. It has beautiful flowers in mid to late April and beautiful red berries in the fall. The birds love' em and so do the squirrels.

Dogwood has always been attractive to me because it is a little tree. It is not a big bush or multi-forked, weak and easily damaged like a Redbud or Bradford Pear. It is a miniature version of some of its larger cousins such as: oak, maple or gum.

Then of course, Kousa Dogwood or Japanese Flowering Dogwood blooms about the middle of May following the Flowering Dogwood bloom by about 3 weeks. The trademark of the Kousa Dogwood is that it blooms after it has put on all its leaves.

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