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Dogs Wood - Contrasting Colours


Dogs Wood - Contrasting Colours (Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea - Golden Dog Wood)

We block set red stemmed dog woods and yellow stemmed ones for contrast, at the back of our pond. Looking quite nice at this time of year. 16.11.08



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I have some of the red dog in my front yard..it is getting very red looking lately....yours is very impressive.

16 Nov, 2008

 

Thanks Catfinch. I have been cutting them down each year so that I always have new, colourful stems but I'm going to just do this every other year now so they can get a bit bigger. From this photo, you cannot see but I have them set crow foot style so they are quite a good block of colour and the idea is for them to reflect against the water.

16 Nov, 2008

 

Very nice work...

16 Nov, 2008

 

Great idea ! Hope you get a shot of this and post it for us to see ! Has your pond frozen over solid yet?

13 Jan, 2009

 

Hi Flcrazy, you've reminded me that I must try and get a photo of the dog woods reflecting. The pond has been frozen over the past couple of weeks but began to thaw a couple of days ago. Looked a bit murky this morning then I noticed the heron flying off, he must have been stirring the bottom up.

13 Jan, 2009

amy
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Lovely colour stems these have ..............

13 Jan, 2009

 

Thanks Amy, they give a bit of Winter colour. Can you see Bonnie on the path in the distance? She's the black blob, lol

13 Jan, 2009

 

Great backdrop to the pond, especially in winter! I bet the leaves are a nuisance in the pond autumn time though.

1 Feb, 2009

 

Hi Paul, Yes the dog woods do look nice against the pond. Falling leaves not to bad :-) Can't wait for the pond to look at its best i.e. late Spring. It is totally natural so probably a bit messy for some but the wildlife love it.

1 Feb, 2009

 

Looks great, lovely photo Da, is that a black dog in your dogwood or some other creature?

17 Nov, 2009

 

Hello Bornagain, thank you.
Ha ha, that's my black labrador Bonnie - she further along the path that runs behind the dog woods. :-)

17 Nov, 2009



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