It’s a knockout – Mary Hull’s dogwood. Its lime colored – set against the green backdrop of Hull’s front yard. “It came as a spindly stick,” she said, and now its ten years old. “It’s a rare species of dogwood, a Cornus alternifolia, or its common name is ‘Golden Shadows’ – a Pagoda dogwood.”
It was discovered by Mary’s friend and garden designer Cary Greenwald. “It struggled,” said Mary, “It needed a lot of water. Husband Lloyd husbanded it with a hose. Greenwald’s Pagodas didn’t make it. Dogwoods need an acid soil.
Mary Hull is exec. dir. of Greenwich Green & Clean and she keeps a very green garden that grows lime green this time of year.