seeking hackberry (sugarberry), red osier dogwood
 

Hi,

I'm not having any luck finding either of these plants - celtis
occidentalis aka hackberry or sugarberry, or red osier dogwood. Does
anybody know a source of either? Or does anybody have any seedlings or
suckers which I could come pry out of the ground?

Thanks,
Jane Peppler

seeking hackberry (sugarberry), red osier dogwood
 

"Jane Peppler" wrote in message
...
| Hi,
|
| I'm not having any luck finding either of these plants - celtis
| occidentalis aka hackberry or sugarberry, or red osier dogwood.
Does
| anybody know a source of either? Or does anybody have any
seedlings or
| suckers which I could come pry out of the ground?
|
| Thanks,
| Jane Peppler
Jane,
I have a very large hackberry tree in my front yard. I think the
berries are just starting to sprout... come get all you want. I
live in NW Raleigh.
Remove Raleigh to reply.
Jeny

seeking hackberry (sugarberry), red osier dogwood
 

Jane, if this is Red Osier Dogwood is the same thing that I think I had
growing wild in Vermont, I suggest that you give serious thought to planting
it!

Here's the Colorado State website,
http://www.colostate.edu/depts/CSFS/month.html, where it's mentioned "for
streamside riparian plantings."

This really, really looks like the stuff that I spent a lot of time digging
out from under my deck -- in Northern Vermont! (It was a second floor
deck, so the area got some sun, but it was hard to get the area cleared out
because of the tenacious "red dogwood" -- and this stuff survived -30
degree winters & no watering.)

Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh

"Jane Peppler" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm not having any luck finding either of these plants - celtis
occidentalis aka hackberry or sugarberry, or red osier dogwood. Does
anybody know a source of either? Or does anybody have any seedlings or
suckers which I could come pry out of the ground?

Thanks,
Jane Peppler

seeking hackberry (sugarberry), red osier dogwood
 

Have you tried plant delights botanical gardens in Juniper Level, NC? Try
their website http://www.plantdelights.com

Regards.

seeking hackberry (sugarberry), red osier dogwood
 

Jane Peppler wrote:

I'm not having any luck finding either of these plants - celtis
occidentalis aka hackberry or sugarberry, or red osier dogwood. Does
anybody know a source of either? Or does anybody have any seedlings or
suckers which I could come pry out of the ground?

If you can't locate any wild Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) seedlings,
you can buy them from the N.C. Division of Forest Resources catalog -
http://www.dfr.state.nc.us/publications/seed2002_03.pdf
($22 for 100 seedlings). Hackberry (C. occidentalis) is very rare here,
at the edge of its range, though it can be difficult to tell from
Sugarberry.

I don't know much about Cornus sericea, though I wouldn't expect it to
do well this far south.

Will Cook
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/plants4birds.html