Hit the Dirt; Shrubs and Color

Good morning. This is Sally for hit the dirt. Sometimes we get a little insipid in our gardens whites graze monochrome and pastels. We avoid red too bold to heart doesn't go with other plants. I like red instead of bringing red into the garden with annuals and perennials why not try shrubs and you can even get color year round with a little magination not just color but structure warmth and interest too in spring one of the earliest flowering shrubs in the flower is the flowering quince Konami speciosa with its four million flowers. One of the best known red cultivars is Texas scarlet. It can be grown as a specimen in a hedge or against a wall. The foliage of Japanese Maple a subpar Madame Bloodgood emerges light red and deepens in the summer. This is a small tree and can be used as a specimen or accent in a mixed border. Some crab apples too have deep red foliage. Thunder child is one growing to seven feet and bearing single pale pink flowers. The 15 to 20 foot cult of fall is that not only has dark red tinge leaves but also single rose red blossoms and crimson crimson glossy persistent fruit. Three

dark red leaves shrubs that do well in a shrub or mixed border a bobbery Berber a stump smoke kush Katanas Korea and a small tree purple leaves sand cherry Prunus sustain a crimson pygmy Barberry is low growing with rich red leaves a mix as well with blue Juniper's and silver foliage perennials. Other cult of Oz or gold ring three to five feet with reddish purple leaves with a greenish yellow margin. Rosie also about five feet with new forward emerging rose pink a maturing to reddish purple after a pro-poor area which has low dense growth to 3 feet reddish purple leaves and red berries to found a cult of Oz or smoked Bush both with purple leaves a royal purple with a silky hairy flowers in summer and velvet cloak that turns a spectacular red purple in for the foliage of the smoke which may be pruned hard every few years to encourage good color in the in the juvenile growth in late spring and early summer. There are these areas and rhododendrons Tunis and ex-players

area at six to eight feet is dark red with an orange blockage and the lower growing Gibraltar as a brilliant orange red. A really hardy evergreen rhododendrons is Nova Zembla which as Sherry dark red flowers and grows to 5 feet in 10 years for a red flowering tree consider the hawthorn cult of our protectors live very good to us. Red Cloud which grows to 20 feet and has masses of white scented red flowers. Another early summer flowering shrub with red flowers is why jewel of Florida red princess and another vigorous cultivar that is Vanna checked in late summer and early fall. We look for color in berries and leaves some of the Heathers have beautiful fall huge golden oranges and the cult of our red haze has red foliage into winter. The low growing Catoni asked pressers praecox has 1 1/2 inch berries and attorney asked a peculiarity of the cranberry Catoni Aster is also low growing with much larger fruit to persist. If the birds don't get them spy reappear Malda gold flame has gold foliage

changing to copper orange in the fall and has crimson flowers. The variety cocks Inya has rich crimson flowers and blooms from late June into September for a spectacular variety of reds in fall. Look also for. Burning bush viburnums Irania father gala and red and sugar maples for winter. There are berries and stems. Some of the flowering crab apples have persistent fruit. Red Jade and profusion are two went to bury. I had exposure to saliva as berries that persists through the winter among the grey stems. The female variety winter red has particularly large fruit and will grow to 7 to 8 feet. It does need a male in the vicinity to pollinate. If you have a good microclimate for fire thorn Pyra kantha you'll be rewarded with a massive orange red berries and foliage in the fall. Very suitable for growing against a wall and the soil should be well drained and slightly alkaline. Read treat dark words provide wonderful color all through the winter and a particularly beautiful in the snow cone of service the

cardinal has scarlet stems and looks stunning in a mass planting. Keep one third prune to the ground in late winter to maintain the color. The low growing Kelsey eye has darker red stems and is useful in the front of the Shrub border to hide more leggy shrubs both dark woods prefer moist soil in combination with other textures and colors or accents reds and shrubs and trees lend year round interest and want to landscape. And I didn't even mention roses and clematis. This is Sally for hit the dirt.