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Eric Gennett Dogwood
Cornus ‘Eric Gennett’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Eric Gennett Dogwood - Cornus ‘Eric Gennett’
Flowering dogwoods are grown for two things: the display of large petal like bracts that surround the true flowers in spring, and the layered horizontal branch structure that reads well through winter once the leaves are down. Sold here as Cornus ‘Eric Gennett’, this one wants exactly what any dogwood wants in Australia, which is a cool district, gentle morning sun and soil that never bakes hard. Treat it as a small feature tree, not a shade tree.
Why Eric Gennett Dogwood
Bract Display: The showy part is four large creamy white bracts around a small button of true flowers, holding for several weeks in spring.
Layered Branching: Branches build in distinct horizontal tiers, which gives the tree an architectural outline in winter.
Autumn Turn: Foliage colours to red and burgundy before dropping, adding a second season of interest.
Cool Climate Requirement: It performs in the tablelands, the Adelaide Hills, Victoria's ranges and Tasmania, and struggles in hot humid coastal gardens.
Scale: Mature size stays modest, so it can sit in a courtyard or a small front garden without dominating it.
Ideal Applications
Courtyard specimen: The tiered form is best appreciated close up, where the branch structure is visible.
Woodland understorey: It grows naturally beneath taller deciduous trees that filter the summer sun.
Cool climate entry planting: A single tree beside a path gives spring bracts and autumn colour in a small footprint.
Mixed shrub border: It provides the upper storey above rhododendrons, hellebores and other acid loving plants.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not used as a hedge, group at 3 to 4m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Winter, while the tree is dormant
Soil & Drainage: Acid to neutral, humus rich, moisture retentive but well drained; it will not accept alkaline, compacted or waterlogged ground
Establishment Care: Keep the root zone evenly moist through the first three summers, since dogwoods scorch at the leaf margins the moment they dry out. Mulch to 75mm with leaf mould kept clear of the trunk, and avoid digging or cultivating over the shallow root plate.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun in cool highland gardens, morning sun with afternoon shade in warmer districts
Native to: Garden raised selection; the dogwood species behind the group come from East Asia and North America
Flower Colour: Creamy white bracts around small greenish true flowers
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







