http://www.masternurseries.com/dogwoods_growing.html#Seed

Here is a link that instructs: How to harvest, prepare and grow Dogwood trees from seed. Good detail.

Neko nomad: I have 4 wild dogwoods on my property. One is 25 ft tall. Tried once to harvest the seeds. They did not grow. But I did not prepare the seeds at all. This year I am going to try to prepare the seeds verses the instructions I found, and see what happens.

I love my 25 ft tall dogwood. Several large branches died in the middle of the tree. When I trimed them away the tree ended up looking like a large bonsai. <<big smile>>

Here is a picture of my favorite Wild Dogwood. It is not so pretty in the winter. This is the one I think looks like a bonsai since I had to trim some dead branches from the center. Hummmm well it kinda looks like a bonsai..

Bill -- Is that tree you show growing in the wild?
It's gotta be beautiful there in the spring !

Yours is a well-tended tree, Oui; the bonsai style I'm familiar with is a tad more extreme, though, and could be compared with topiary.

Didn't know they grew so tall -- like, hardly what one could call compact, which is how I hazily remember them in Augusta GA back in the spring of '56.

Think I'll surf around for a seed supplier.

My name is Neko Nomad, and I'm a plantaholic; glad to be here.

Does anybody know what the name of the disease Dogwoods get?? ALL my neighbors dogwoods died from something nasty and contagious. I cannot remember the name. My trees, however, did not die. Because they are wild I think. I had one nursery dogwood in my backyard that died from the disease. My neighbor across the street lost both LARGE dogwoods that she had. My 25 ft tree is maybe 50 ft away from her trees that died..It did not die...BUT my nursery dogwood is at least 200 feet away and in the backyard, it died. Weird huh??

The tree is along the north end of my yard which was once heavily wooded. My land is the original homeplace of the farmer that use to own all the land around here. I have been told that the north property line use to be wild but the underbrush was trimmed back. Wild dogwoods usually die when cover is cut back. This tree miraculously survived. It has 2 large trees on either side of it which protect it from the grueling full sun of summer. It is definately an OLD tree just based on how big the trunk is.

Oh how I love this tree.