• Year-round interest
• Star-like, creamy-white flowers
• Low maintenance
• Hardy specimen
• Attracts wildlife
The Cornus kousa 'China Girl' is a showy, award-winning, multi-branching, ornamental tree providing year-round interest.
Description
This low-maintenance flowering dogwood displays small, star-like, creamy-white flowers throughout spring, which is great for wildlife. The China Girl flowers give way to rounded, glistening pink berries, providing an essential food source for birds during autumn.
The Cornus kousa 'China Girl' is a small, ornamental tree with smooth, medium-sized, ovate, dark green leaves from spring, turning attractive shades of red and orange before the leaves fall in autumn, which reveal grey-brown, textured bark and tiered branches throughout the winter season.
Planting Position
This flowering dogwood is low-maintenance, suitable for small gardens, and often planted in borders and informal gardens. The Cornus kousa 'China Girl' will grow in most conditions but prefers slightly more sheltered areas in full sun to partial shade and in moist but well-drained soil.
After Care
The Cornus kousa 'China Girl' requires little maintenance. Remove dead, diseased, damaged, congested or crossing shoots during winter or early spring. Water only if the compost feels dry.
Size
After 10 years, the tree can reach a height of 4m with a 4m spread.
