Cornus kousa 'Pam's Mountain Bouquet' Japanese Gardens

Cornus kousa 'Pam's Mountain Bouquet' Japanese GardensA refined and floriferous selection of Cornus kousa, Pams Mountain Bouquet is prized for its exceptionally heavy bloom and elegant, layered branching. In late spring to early summer, the tree is covered in a profusion of large, creamy white bracts that create a luminous, bouquet like effectoften appearing more abundant than typical Kousa dogwoods. Its foliage emerges rich green and remains clean and attractive through the growing season before turning

This means the flowers are larger and the foliage and stems are thicker

Camellia ‘Donation’ was bred by Colonel Stephenson Clarke of Borde Hill

It is even tolerant of summer humidity

The flowers on this hybrid are a luscious apricot-peach color and look so good you will want to taste them

after the bloom the new foliage emerges a deep red with bright green veins

The variegation is on steroids

A collector's gem

congested leaves

making it one of the best for contrast to darker foliage colors

some pink and some red

Only hardy for zones 8-9

pinching or fuss and it will stay in it's place and not go wandering off to push out the plants you love around it