Position: Full sun to part shade

Soil: Well drained but moist soil, acid or neutral. Avoid chalky soil

Rate of growth: Around 10- 20cm per year

Height: 6-8m

Spread: 6-8m

Flowers: Masses of starry cream-white flower heads with four pointed, petal like bracts in spring

Fruit: Abundant, large red strawberry-like fruits in late summer: edible but unpalatable

A fine, sturdy and vigorous flowering dogwood of great appeal for many months of the year. It forms an elegant shrub or small tree, leafing up in spring and flowering in early summer, when it produces magnificent displays of bloom. The upright, starry flowerheads crowd the tops of the branches for a couple of weeks. They are flower-like in form with four pointed, petal-like cream bracts. With this flowering dogwood selection, they are especially prolific, showing up well against the rather dark green foliage. Showy strawberry-like fruits may follow. Cornus kousa var chinensis ‘Milky Way’ has purple then orange foliage tints in autumn.

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Container

Image	Name	Price	Buy
	Cornus kousa 'Milky Way' (Flowering dogwood) - Container, 200 to 250cm Multistem	£436 Excl. VAT	Cornus kousa 'Milky Way' (Flowering dogwood) quantity Add to basket
	Cornus kousa 'Milky Way' (Flowering dogwood) - Container, 150 to 200cm Multistem	£324 Excl. VAT	Cornus kousa 'Milky Way' (Flowering dogwood) quantity Add to basket