This article was co-authored by Steve Masley.

Jun 26, Therefore, the best time to prune a dogwood tree is in late fall and winter while the tree is dormant. Dogwood Tree Pruning Info.

Dogwood trees have a naturally attractive shape and don’t require routine pruning, but there are some circumstances where pruning and trimming dogwood trees becomes necessary. Jun 25, Like many flowering trees and shrubs, the best time to prune a dogwood tree is when the tree is dormant.

For the dogwood tree, this is in the late fall and winter. However, as we mentioned, there are two types of pruning: completely removing dead or diseased limbs to keep the tree healthy or trimming old blooms to promote new growth and bushdig.barted Reading Time: 10 mins. Best Time to Prune a Dogwood Tree. People ask if they can trim a dogwood in the summer or cut back a dogwood in the fall, but the best time to prune a dogwood tree is in late fall until late winter. This is when the dogwood is completely dormant.

There are 2 main reasons to only prune during the dormant period. Insects and oozing bushdig.barted Pruning young avocado trees Time: 7 mins. If you are specifically looking to prune your dogwood tree to encourage colourful stems, you’ll need to wait until it’s at least a year, if not two years, old.

Hard pruning is not suitable for younger dogwood trees. Once you reach the second or third spring, you can cut back to cm from the ground if. Jun 27, Every year, in late winter, you'll want to remove about a third of the old, most faded stems from your Dogwood shrub, cutting them back to the ground. Also cut out any damaged or dead stems. This method will encourage more new, brightly colored stems to emerge when the plant emerges from dormancy in spring.

The larva actually do the most damage by working on the roots of the dogwood.

Step 1 Prune when the kousa dogwood is dormant, in late fall or early winter. Do not prune when the tree is flowering in the spring, or you will make it vulnerable to dogwood borers, one of the very few pests that seriously affect it. Step 2. How Do You Revive A Dogwood Tree?

It tends to be multi-stemmed, and may sucker from the lower trunk and roots, making it a good candidate for a hedge or shrub border.

Unless the tree is already dead, it’s very likely that you can revive the tree before it dies completely. Some specific issues that could be affecting your tree are leaf spots, powdery mildew, root rot, scale, or borer insects.