Horticulture

Short-term Sizzle

foliage, gardeners often fixate on color. Plants with brightly colored leaves stand out against all the green at the garden center. Golden redbuds. Chocolate mimosas. Salmon box elder. But while these distinctively colored trees look phenomenal in planters or highly ornamental urban gardens, it’s

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