Sorry to hear about your dogwood not flowering. Dogwoods typically grow at the edge of forests, so they spend half the day in the Sun and the other half in shade, but from your description it sounds like those are the conditions your dogwood is growing in.
If your dogwood is planted close to your lawn, which you then use fertilizers on, it could be an issue with too much nitrogen. Nitrogen is great for leaf growth, but it can cause your dogwood to not flower. If that is the case, stop using lawn fertilizer in that area of your lawn, opting instead to use a balanced fertilizer.
Drought or poor drainage can also be a factor, but since you said that you water it when you care for your flowers it might be receiving too much water. Water logged roots can adversely affect a dogwood’s growth. It is best to give it about 1 inch a week (including rainfall) for its first half dozen years.
It should also be mentioned that pruning a dogwood should only be done immediately after bloom time because pruning later in the season can remove immature buds.
And, it could also be an issue with disease or environmental stressors leading to your dogwood not blooming.
Hi Elvira,
Sorry to hear about your dogwood not flowering. Dogwoods typically grow at the edge of forests, so they spend half the day in the Sun and the other half in shade, but from your description it sounds like those are the conditions your dogwood is growing in.
If your dogwood is planted close to your lawn, which you then use fertilizers on, it could be an issue with too much nitrogen. Nitrogen is great for leaf growth, but it can cause your dogwood to not flower. If that is the case, stop using lawn fertilizer in that area of your lawn, opting instead to use a balanced fertilizer.
Drought or poor drainage can also be a factor, but since you said that you water it when you care for your flowers it might be receiving too much water. Water logged roots can adversely affect a dogwood’s growth. It is best to give it about 1 inch a week (including rainfall) for its first half dozen years.
It should also be mentioned that pruning a dogwood should only be done immediately after bloom time because pruning later in the season can remove immature buds.
And, it could also be an issue with disease or environmental stressors leading to your dogwood not blooming.
Hope this helps!