On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:24:13 -0400, wrote:

Brooklyn1 Gravesend1 writes:

Forty years is about the outter limit for dogwood. Had I known then
what I know now I'd have never planted any. I do not recommend
dogwood as a specimen tree either, besides their rather short life
span they don't always have a good year, often they don't 'flower'
very well. I had three at my last house that I finally removed. This
was the last one, tried to save it but it was already a goner, hadn't
looked at this picture for ten years now, looks sad... shoulda just
taken it down entirely:
http://i54.tinypic.com/2dhcqcm.jpg

The tree looks okay except that someone pruned the tree viciously.

That's not pruning, that's dead wood removal. The poor thing spent
three years trying to put out new growth but finally I put it out of
its misery.

Too close to the house I suppose.

Not hardly.