How to Graft a Pink and White Dogwood

How to graft flowering dogwoods

Things You'll Need

• tree tape
• potatoe peeler

Instructions

1. First to start we need to take a walk through the woods or a drive along an old dirt road and scout for some dogwood tree's.You want to choose tree's 4 to 5 feet tall.Make sure the tree's you get are approximately the same size.You want one pink and one white in order to make the flowers different colors through out the circumference of the tree.

2. The tree's once dug up can be stuffed in a plastic grocery bag and hauled to your location.Once you have your tree's ready to plant you will have to remove the dirt from one side of the root's in order to meet the main shaft's of the tree's together.Now take the potatoe peeler and peel the bark of the shaft's of the tree's where they will meet.

3. Place the tree's together binding them tightly with the tree tape.Now place the grafted tree in the hole you have prepared and fill with miracle grow potting soil.Water your newly planted,Grafted Flowering pink and white dogwood.Your neighbors will be eager to know where you have gotten this tree a few years down the road.

Tips & Warnings

• donot use treated mulch around trees