Propagation
Stratify seeds and sow during spring in prepared beds.
Soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during late spring and semi hardwood cuttings taken during late summer.

Culture
Dogwoods prefer a slightly acidic soils and protection from strong drying winds with the roots kept moist and cool. Generally Dogwoods require little pruning and the tree species may have the crown lifted revealing the trunk.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are ovate to lanceolate with an acuminate apex and a short petiole. The upper surface is glossy grey green with a pale green mid rib and veins.

Flower: The tiny stellate flowers have 4-calyx lobes and are arrange in a dense terminal head that is surrounded by 4-6 obovate yellowish-white pointed bracts up to 50mm (2in) long. They appear during early summer.

Fruit: The compound fleshy strawberry-like drupe is borne on long pendulous stalks. The small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively.