Satomi Dogwood – A Show Stopper

~ Bitchy After 60

This tree makes people stop and take notice. Not just for a day or a week but for up to five weeks of the summer depending on the weather. Never did I imagine that it would get so stunning. Mind you some years are better than others, but this year is exceptional.

The little Satomi Dogwood that I purchased and planted in 2007 grew up to be a show stopper.

All I have to do is give it a little fertilizer in the spring around April so that it gets into the ground with the spring rains. I literally don’t have to do anything else. I have taken to pruning out a few low branches in the fall, which has served to allow it to grow upwards better after having the top taken out by a fallen branch a couple of years after it was planted. It is hard to tell how tall it has become in the photo due to it’s massive-looking width, but it is now around fifteen feet high and twenty-five feet wide. 

The show starts off with small petal-shaped leaves that start to turn salmon pink as they grow larger and develop the center seed pods which turn red later on and remain on the tree for a while after the petals fall, then eventually fall to the ground. 

I tried planting one of these but it didn’t work so I was ecstatic when Mother nature did it for me. Yesterday I dug up several baby Satomi trees under the mother tree. If they live, I will be able to give a beautiful gift to some people I love.

I am happy to report that there are now two other Satomi trees on my street and a couple more elsewhere in the neighbourhood. Maybe, just maybe, more will arrive and they will all grow to become as popular as the cherry trees that bloom in other neighbourhoods.  

Thank you for reading

Photos: Jenn Stone

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  3. I love dogwoods, both the pink and white ones. The white one is B.C’s provincial flower. How lovely that you have some seedlings to gift! Wonderful. I hope they grow beautifully and your neighbourhood becomes known for its dogwood trees. Cheers.

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  8. I just bought one! My nephew planted it for me last week. I can’t wait for it to grow like yours. What kind of fertilizer do you use?

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    1. You will love it. Hope it grows fast and healthy for you. I just use the Jobe shrub and tree stakes. When I first started, I only needed one but this year because it was so large, it took four.

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  10. That’s a truly beautiful bush! We have dogwoods here but they don’t bloom so far as I know and they have red twigs/bark. I suppose they must get small flowers as they do produce small black berries which must have come from flowers.

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