David Cleland wrote:
Do you mean a thing with pretty red bark on upright whippy shoots?
If
so, it's red-barked dogwood (Cornus alba), and it'll make a domed
bush about eight feet high if you don't cut it. Lower branches
will
root where they touch the ground, so the spread is just about
indefinite.

yip that is it, I have read about cutting it back - Ideally I would
like it around 4 feet, it is ok to trim to a desired size ?

I can't promise four feet, as the stems do come up very quickly; but
I found when I had a lot of them that they wouldn't -- I'm guessing
here -- get above about five by the end of the summer. Cut them off
six inches from the ground every year, about the end of this month,
and you'll be all right. Stay ruthless in subsequent years, too. The
same treatment for golden osiers, but a couple of weeks earlier, as
they shoot sooner.

Mike.