Showy Fall Foliage - Page 4 of 9 - Fine Gardening

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    Burning bush

    Euonymus alatus

    The familiar burning bush is a dense, flat-topped, deciduous shrub with a rounded, horizontal branching habit.

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    Apple serviceberry

    Amelanchier  × grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'

    This shrubby tree has leaves that emerge bronze, mature green, and fade to orange and red in autumn.

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    Rockspray

    Cotoneaster horizontalis

    This deciduous shrub has a spreading habit and branches that form a herringbone pattern.

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    Golden full moon maple

    Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’

    If your shade garden needs a focal point, consider this small, rounded Japanese maple, with its lime-to-chartreuse-tinged golden leaves.

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    Euphorbia dulcis

    Euphorbia dulcis

    This species produces erects stems of bronzy green leaves and greenish yellow bracts in early summer.

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    ‘Snowflake’ oakleaf hydrangea

    Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snowflake’

    This cultivar has large flower heads of intricate double blossoms layered on top of one another.

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    Heavenly bamboo

    Nandina domestica

    Yellow-white flowers appear in late spring, followed by prolific berries that ripen from green to bright-red or purple in fall.

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    ‘Gro-Low’ fragrant sumac

    Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-Low’

    This vigorous shrub hugs the ground (to 2 feet tall) and spreads out to 8 feet, making it an excellent choice for stabilizing a bank or smothering weeds.

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    Golden larch

    Pseudolarix kaempferi

    The golden larch is a lovely deciduous conifer whose lacy foliage turns golden in autumn.

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    Common witch hazel

    Hamamelis virginiana

    The native common witch hazel is an understory plant that becomes leggy if it has to reach for light, but in the open, it develops into a graceful, spreading shrub…