Commented: Dogwood disease-diagnosis?very likely anthracnose - but you might want to check in with local college/arboretum folks, as I found out a few years ago that my dogwood had anthracnose, but not the fatal kind.
I trimmed off the ...
Commented: 8 ft col. blue spruce lost leaderanyhoo, here is the result of trimming down a leader on the hoopsii on the left a few years ago (07, I think) - I'll try one more time, then I leave it to Mother Nature!