Pagoda Dogwood Live Shrub | Cornus alternifolia | Native Flowering Starter Shrub

Add graceful elegance and four-season interest to your landscape with Pagoda Dogwood, a greenhouse-grown starter live shrub prized for its distinctive tiered branching, creamy white spring flowers, colorful berries, and brilliant fall foliage. Cornus alternifolia, commonly known as Pagoda Dogwood, is a hardy North American native deciduous shrub or small tree admired for its unique horizontal branching habit and outstanding wildlife value. It is an excellent choice for woodland gardens, native landscapes, shade gardens, wildlife habitats, naturalized areas, and ornamental borders. With proper care, it produces clusters of fragrant white flowers in late spring followed by blue-black berries in summer.

Pagoda Dogwood thrives in partial shade but also grows well in full sun with consistently moist soil. It prefers rich, well-draining soil high in organic matter. Its elegant layered branching creates year-round architectural interest, while fragrant spring flowers attract native bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators. By late summer, blue-black berries borne on striking red stems provide an important food source for songbirds and other wildlife. In autumn, the foliage transforms into beautiful shades of burgundy, crimson, and purple.

You will receive one healthy, greenhouse-grown Pagoda Dogwood starter shrub, carefully packaged for safe arrival.

🌿 What's Included

• 1 Pagoda Dogwood Starter Shrub
• Healthy starter shrub
• Greenhouse-grown shrub
• Carefully packaged for shipping

✨ Features

• Elegant tiered horizontal branching
• Fragrant creamy white flower clusters
• Blue-black berries on attractive red stems
• Spectacular burgundy, crimson, and purple fall foliage
• Native North American deciduous shrub
• Attracts bees, butterflies, and beneficial pollinators
• Berries provide food for birds and wildlife
• Excellent specimen or woodland understory plant
• Four-season ornamental interest
• Greenhouse grown for healthy establishment

🌱 Growing Information

• Botanical Name: Cornus alternifolia
• Common Name: Pagoda Dogwood
• Plant Size: Starter shrub
• Light: Partial shade to full sun (with adequate moisture)
• Growing Media: Rich, moist, well-draining soil
• Water: Keep evenly moist during establishment; water during extended dry periods
• Humidity: Adaptable
• USDA Hardiness: Zones 3–7
• Mature Size: Approximately 15–25 feet tall and 15–25 feet wide

🌼 Perfect For

• Woodland Gardens
• Native Plant Gardens
• Shade Gardens
• Wildlife Gardens
• Naturalized Landscapes
• Ornamental Borders
• Woodland Edges
• Four-Season Landscapes