Thomas's Curios Blog

In the western part of my property I have some very beautiful bushes. By coincident I saw an article about "Dogwood multipleing by cuttings" and a photo of my bush

My bigest Dogwood:


My property is very nicely surrounded by trees beside 60m on the south side of my field. SO the project is to grow a Dogwood per 2.5m (30 all in all) at the south side of my field!

South side of field looking west:


I have made 30 cuttings following the description and planted them in big buckets, frost-free and plenty of sun around middle of February. In beginning of Marts the first sign of live showed.
This winter I lost both my parents so I choose to believe they live on in my growing Dogwood cuttings. I have selected one for each of them and named them Olaf and Lisa

I will take a photo often so we can see how they are coming!

Project Milestones

• Harvest Dogwood Cuttings winter 2010/2011 => Done
• Plant Cuttings in Greenhouse => Done
• Cut plants down to 50cm to make them grow as bushes => Done 29.07.11
• Fall 2011, re-plant grown cuttings in to garden => Done 27.10.11
• Follow Growth until full bush around end of 2014 => Not Done

Photos of Lisa (with date tags):

20.03.2011:


Photos of Olaf (with date tags):


20.03.2011:


NEWS - all important news will be posted here
06.03.2012 The Dogwood project goes international. Eva Wirên in Sweden joins the Dogwood Team with two Dogwood stickling growing from the mother tree in my garden.
17.03.2012 Merle Plagge joins the Dogwood Team and so ads USA to the Dogwood Project
21.03.2012 Wierdf Folkersma joins the Dogwood Team and so ads Finland to the Dogwood Project
04.04.2012 Generation 2011 have started to grow in Thomas's garden
22.05.2012 Generation 2011 have been fenced to protect them against Deer. See Photo

PICTURES
Eva's and Wertti's Dogwood shots at Shoot&Tell
Merle's Dogwood in his "Miscules 2012" blog album
Thomas's Dogwood Album and Dogwood shots at Shoot&Tell

Thomas