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With its exquisite pink blossoms, year-round interest, and low-maintenance care, the Pink Kousa Dogwood is the epitome of elegance – a true gem in any garden landscape. Celebrated for its stunning pink blossoms, the unique flowers grace your garden with charm from early spring to summer.
The kousa dogwood is a tree that’s incredibly beautiful, and it resists pest infestations as well as disease. Learn how to cultivate it on Gardener’s Path.
Attractive horizontal tiers of branches help make this small deciduous tree popular. Splendid pink to red bracts followed in fall by hanging red fruit. Autumn leaves have red-scarlet tints. LIGHT: Full sun. WATER: Water when top 2 inches of soil is dry.
Plant a Kousa dogwood to give your backyard garden the same magnificence of an arboretum. These flowering trees can bloom from late winter to late summer, and fall ushers in a season of stunning fall colors. Learn more about Kousa dogwood varieties.
Pink Kousa dogwood is a shrub with year-round appeal. Tiny green blooms surrounded by rosy pink, petal-like bracts appear in spring. Flowers are followed by decorative red berries that can persist into winter if the birds don’t eat them first.
Award-winning Cornus kousa ‘Miss Satomi’ (Kousa Dogwood) is an upright, spreading, medium-sized deciduous shrub with four seasons of interest. In spring, a heavenly array of star-like blooms appear. They consist of four narrowly pointed deep pink bracts surrounding the center cluster of tiny yellowish-green flowers.
Cornus kousa, commonly called Kousa dogwood, is a small, deciduous flowering tree or multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 15-30’ tall, with a vase-shaped habit in the early years but eventually maturing to a more rounded form. Bloom occurs in late spring.
There are a number of Kousa dogwood varieties, and the only basic difference is how each tree looks. “Gold Star” has a golden stripe down each leaf in the spring, which darkens to a solid green later in the summer. “Satomi” and “Stellar Pink” have pink flowers instead of white ones.
The Kousa dogwood is a handsome, small- to medium-sized tree reaching a mature height of 30 feet. Sometimes referred to as the Chinese dogwood, this Asian is a cousin to our native flowering dogwood. It can be used as a specimen plant or in shrub borders.
Of the pink forms in the market today, Cornus 'Miss Satomi' is considered the best of all, but is often sold as C. 'Satomi'. The deciduous tree is a spreading, layered branching tree. Akiri Shibamichi named the pink dogwood after his granddaughter, and introduced it to the trade, in 1980.