Ivory Halo Dogwood
Cornus alba ‘Bailhalo’ · a white-variegated shrub dogwood
A compact dogwood with white-edged leaves all summer and bright red stems that glow against winter snow. It's fast and easy in moist soil, takes occasional standing water, and deer and rabbits leave it alone. Prune out the oldest stems each spring for the best colour; it's happiest where summers aren't hot.
- Mature size
- 5 × 5 ft
- 1.5 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–7b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to wet
- Blooms
- May–Jun
Ivory Halo Dogwood at its mature size
A mature Ivory Halo Dogwood grows 4 to 6 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Ivory Halo Dogwood looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Mar
Bare: thicket of bright red upright stems, no leaves.
In leaf · Apr–Sep
Dense rounded shrub of green leaves edged in creamy white, greenish-red stems.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Variegated leaves with little colour change, stems turning red.
Growing Ivory Halo Dogwood
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, drought tolerant, rain garden, deer resistant, winter interest, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Eastern Asia and Central Asia
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Ivory Halo Dogwood, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Ivory Halo Dogwood in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other dogwoods
Ivory Halo Dogwood
Red Twig Dogwood
Kousa Dogwood
Pagoda DogwoodAll drawn to the same scale.