Fall guides to a long lasting gardening season
An author shares how fall is a distinct gardening season with color and texture through fall blooming bushes trees and perennials. Key tips include selecting hardy, region suitable specimens, preparing soil adding organic matter planting early warming roots, careful watering and mulch. Emphasizes color themes and the garden as its last dance before winter.
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Autumn color shrub Cotinus coggygria Royal Purple
Cotinus coggygria Royal Purple smoke bush offers oval dark reddish purple leaves in summer that blaze scarlet in autumn. Grows in moderately fertile well drained soil with partial shade or full sun. Hardy in zones 6 to 8 and useful as a specimen or foundation plant. The small Hamamelis group adds fragrance with spider shaped blooms.