Cornus kousa 'Trinity Star'

I love this tree. But I love all dogwoods. A dogwood flower is our provincial flower.

This is my favorite flowering dogwood because it is more reliable and more disease resistant than Cornus florida dogwoods. I love the flowers on Cornus florida dogwoods but the flower buds don't always survive winter and they usually get leaf mildew pretty bad. Are flowering dogwoods common in your region?

C. florida is not common in Ireland, possibly because of poor Summer sunshine. Autumn colour usually a lot darker than this. [C. kousa]

In our region we have Pcific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)growing wild,often underneath Douglas-firs, grand firs, and western hemlocks. Our legislation protects the Pacific dogwood from being dug up or cut . The Pacific dogwood blossom is the floral emblem of our province....British Columbia.
Our neighbour has about 20 Pacific dogwoods on her property(on 2.5 ac) and they never planted one . Bird's distribution I guess.We have several as well.
Many people grow C. florida and Kousa in their yards. I am one of them. They are very popular here.

I have a Cornus kousa var.chinensis grown from seed, about 10 years old and about half as big again as yours. Would you have any idea how long it may take to flower.Photos of it look great,but I get the feeling I may be buried next to it before it flowers.

It's 10 years old and half the size as the my dogwood? My dogwood is supposed to be shorter (12' tall at maturity compared to 20-25' for C. kousa var. Chinensis). Most of the dogwoods I have seen have flowered very young but it might take Cornus kousa longer. I would have thought it would be flowering within ten years though. Do you see any flower buds on it now? They are pointed buds on branch tips. The first year I planted mine it only produced a few flower buds. If it's not producing flower buds, it is probably something with the growing environment (sunlight, water, fertilizer, etc.).

Sorry,I wasn't clear.One and a half times the size of yours if I've judged the photo correctly.I think possibly,mine gets too dry in summer although it always comes back to look healthy enough.Being a Dogwood,I guess plenty of water would be beneficial.I will check for buds.

If it is too dry, the leaves will look droopy almost constantly. I transplanted this one and it needed quite a bit of water this year, especially because of the very hot/dry weather we had. Did the leaves look green or were they kind of yellowish between the veins? When they don't have the right nutrients, dogwood leaves can change all sorts of colors depending on what they are lacking. It definitely affected the plants we grew at the nursery and dogwoods with low nutrients did not flower very well if at all.

No problem here with nutrients,so will remember to give it a good soaking when dry.Thanks for the information.

No problem, it's what I do lol. I just remembered something else I thought could be helpful. I've gone to check out a number of trees for people with problems related to flowering, poor growth, etc. and on several occasions dug up the plant to find the roots circling in the hole and not rooting in the surrounding soil. Unless you've had problems with other trees doing the same thing it's pretty unlikely but I thought it might be worth mentioning anyways. Hope it flowers better soon :)

Thanks.I always gently pull the roots out when planting from a pot.Especially if they look to be circling the pot.