Prairie Fire Dogwood

If you're on the hunt for a beautiful shrub to add color and structure to your landscape, you are in luck! Prairie Fire Dogwood (Cornus alba Prairie Fire') features outstanding four-season color and winter interest.

Prairie Fire Dogwood performs an exciting color show all through the growing season. New spring leaves are ablaze with golden-yellow color. The leaf color gradually ages into an eye-catching chartreuse mix of bright green and gold. In fall, the foliage burst into flaming hues of bright red and orange for your autumn landscape.

No wonder this deciduous shrub is in high demand! We sell out every year.

Even the leaves themselves are noteworthy. Prairie Fire Dogwood has delightfully pointy leaves that add an interesting texture to its lovely, rounded form.

We all know you want this shrub for it's winter display after the leaves fall. It brings five alarm winter interest to your landscape.

Tomato-orange winter branches are extremely showy. They are sure to brighten up your drab, off-season landscape!

Imagine those fluorescent colored stems poking out of the snowbank during the winter months! Prairie Fire really offers quite a show in all seasons. The plants are quite adaptable to just about any landscape.

Use several for a colorful hedge along your driveway, one as an accent in your front yard, or in mass plantings in a naturalized area. Prairie Fire Dogwood is as versatile as it is colorful.

You aren't the only one who will fall in love with this shrub. In late spring, clusters of creamy white flowers appear at the ends of the branches which bring butterflies to your yard. The blooms will gradually mature into tiny white summertime berries that are loved by songbirds.

Prairie Fire Dogwood is a multi-stemmed shrub. It features a dense branch structure that provides a fair bit of screening, even in winter when the leaves have fallen. Everyone will be looking at that bold winter color, anyway!

You'll appreciate the low-maintenance, carefree attitude of this hardy shrub. Long, thick branches can be pruned to the ground in early winter. Be sure to include these bright stems in your Holiday decorations!

When a shrub offers this much interest in all four seasons, even small yards can afford the space required to grow one or two. Use Prairie Fire Dogwood for a beautiful sense of privacy, and to hide the utilitarian areas of your yard. Try one in a low spot that seems to stay damp after a rainstorm.

Due to its unique and very desirable qualities, this super hardy selection of Red Twigged Dogwood is a bit hard to find. If you see it in stock on our site, please place your order. You will be in competition with homeowners across Zones 2 - 7 who are searching for this colorful, low-maintenance plant. Order now!

How to Use Prairie Fire Dogwood in the Landscape

This unique Dogwood has fantastic leaf color and stem color and is adaptable to many different uses in the landscape. You can use a single plant of this sweet dogwood as a specimen plant to brighten your landscape all year long.

Try it at the corner of your house to anchor your foundation planting. Or, use a single shrub in a patio planting bed.

You'll be thrilled to have that bright pop of seasonal color, but most especially in the long, 'blah' months of winter.

Repeat several of them along the back of your sunny perennial garden. Make sure the Prairie Fire Dogwood shrubs are planted to the north or east side of the bed. You won't want your smaller, sun-loving perennials to get shaded out, after all.

Prairie Fire Dogwood works well as an informal hedge along the edge of a patio, or to screen out ugly garages or between houses. You'll gain a bit of privacy and four seasons of visual interest.

Add this pretty plant as a facer shrub to the sunny side of windbreaks or shelterbelts. The large evergreen trees make a beautiful contrasting backdrop to the yellow leaves and bright orange red stems.

Prairie Fire Dogwood also makes an excellent plant for snow fencing. A tight row of them against the prevailing winter winds will protect concrete driveways from the full brunt of snowstorms.

For a close hedge, plant 3 foot apart on center. You'll measure from the center of one plant to the center of the next.

Expand the spacing out to 5 feet on center for a more natural look. To create a wonderfully organic look, use an odd numbered group of plants. Vary the spacing between the plants—from 4 - 6 feet on center—and use a gentle zigzagging planting pattern for a feeling of flow.

Then, plant another odd-numbered group nearby. Use 3 total groups for a wonderful look. Prairie Fire would be very effective when used this way in natural groups along the prairie's edge or edge of a woodland.

Why not leave a larger space between groups to run a woodland path through your planting? You could also create a marvelous curving backdrop to an outdoor fire pit or rustic hammock stand using this technique.

We encourage you to really use your backyard. Use large shrubs like this to create the walls of Garden Rooms for yourself and your family to truly relax in nature. Add bird feeders and birdhouses and include partner plants as nectar and host sources for butterflies. Enjoy yourself!

#ProPlantTips for Care

Prairie Fire Dogwood grows in just about any soil. It can tolerate areas that remain damp periodically. This makes it excellent for use in Rain Gardens to filter water runoff from roofs and streets before it flows down the sewer and into local waterways.

Give it a moderate amount of water regularly for best performance. This is especially important when the shrub is young.

Prune all varieties of Red Twigged Dogwood in the fall. Cut out the oldest, thickest stems down to the ground. You'll want to use those cut stems for your Holiday decorating.

This renewal system of pruning keeps the plants healthy and enables them to achieve a nice form. It also highlights the youngest stems, which exhibit the best winter color for you.

This is a really special variety of Red Twigged Dogwood. Order your Prairie Fire Dogwood today. Don't wait and take a chance you'll miss out on this year's crop!