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Originally Posted by kay
Are you sure about that? According to Stace (accepted as the authority on the British flora) both Dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, and the creeping dwarf cornel, Cornus suecica, are native.
The red-stemmed White Dogweed, Cornus alba, isn't native, but from the the fact that the OP has a lot of dogwood suggests he isn't talking about this one.
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thinking about it, we have dogwood in the boundary hedge of the local nature reserve, along with blackthorn, guelder rose and various other species. It isn't causing a problem. The hedge is designed to screen out the houses beyond, so isn't cut regularly, just cut back now and again when it blocks the adjacent path.
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