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Multi-Season Interest
No-nonsense plants contribute year-round aesthetic qualities
to the garden. When flowers wane, their form, fruits,
bark and foliage take over. For example: |
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Serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.), with their white
spring flowers, attractive red summer berries, yellow-to-reddish
fall colors and dusky-grey bark; |
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Royal purple smoketree (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal
Purple'), with its misty pinkish-purple flowers and brilliant
purple foliage; |
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The spectacular oak-leafed hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia),
adaptable to sun and part shade with cone-shaped flowers
that change color from creamy white to amber, complemented
by eye-popping purple-red fall foliage; |
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Fothergilla species, with their bottlebrush-like
white spring flowers and captivating red, yellow and orange
colors in fall. |
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An oak-leafed hydrangea adds multi-season interest to the garden. |
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