Wow, love2gardennc, I did not know you posted here. GW must be having some issues there. I'm interested in a trade. The Cornus mas seeds that I have are from fruit that I collected myself from very productive plants. The fruit is very tasty and after putting it through the food mill I did make a bunch of goodies from the clean pulp. Now I have a ton of seeds that I cleaned and dried. I do have access to some small seedlings as well that grow beneath the mother trees. Send me an email if you want to connect. Thanks, Little John

Hi Trish_ca Do you know if they are Cornus florida, The native Dogwood Tree? If so.....I'd be interested in trading! ;-) Here is a link that might be useful: My Trade Page

I have some fresh seeds just collected from a wild Cornus florida, Flowering Dogwood, which is native to the eastern US. Looking for other native plants. If interested, please post here.

bboy, I want to share my Pagoda dogwood experience with you. I have a 5 ft tall of this tree. A friend of mine gave it to me last year. I dug it from her front yard. It was geographically transplanted around May 22. I put it in my backyard which gets sun from 9-10am until 5pm. About August of last year, it wasn't doing well. I saw tons of leaf loss. This year, I only have watered it once and the leaves are all still intact and healthy green. We also didn't get rain for more than 2 weeks. It's been quite hot here as well. It was only last Saturday that we got insane amount of rain. My 8 ft tall ninebark's maroon leaves though started to wilt. I was under the impression that it's drought tolerant. So yeah, I'm very happy with my Pagoda. I noticed though that it's a slow grower.