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Thanks guys! Either I've never seen this type (thought they had smaller, more bougainvilla type flowers) or never looked at one up close before. We just moved here in Oct and when this started blooming both DH and I were stunned at it's beauty.
Thanks VV. I love my camera and refuse to give it up even tho it is over 10 years old :-)
I waited with anticipation all year for my dogwood to bloom again and when I saw everyone else's blooming and mine not, I went down into the pasture to have a closer look. It looks like quite a bit of it is dead. I can peel the bark right off and see squiggles in the trunk where the bark comes off. Also a dead stump that is right next to it is covered with termites. If I look very closely, I can see very, VERY tiny buds on a few of the branches but many of the branches break off dead when I bend them and have no new growth/buds.
Is there anything I can do at this point? Or does it sound beyond help?
We had a jungle area in the middle of the pasture that this tree bordered on that was where everything was cleared to years ago and grew wild. We just had it all cleared a month ago and I'm wondering if uprooting some of the junk that was growing and rotting in there (dead stumps, decomposing trees, etc) released the termites to look for a new home and who knows what other critters into what trees we had them spare when they cleared. This was the only tree I specifically pointed out and said "do not touch".
If it's a Padoga Dogwood, it may send up suckers. Leave it alone for a while and see. My Dogwood died last summer, but instead of cutting it all the way down, my daughter, the landscape designer, said to leave it alone and let some of the suckers grow. It may not be a single-stem speciman anymore, but it's better than nothing. Red Bud trees will do the same thing. This Spring I have a couple 6' stuckers that survived the winter. I'll leave maybe three of them to grow on and cut the rest of the old tree down. It looked really weird with the 5' stump sticking up all winter, but I have a new 6', multi-stemmed tree.
Dogwoods need some protection. Most likely your tree way out in the pasture suffered at some time from winter sun scalled and that caused the bark to split and that allowed the critters to move in. Give it a try, what's to lose?
