ew growth abounds in the April garden, colouring in the winter gaps. For me it is the acid greens that are most in tune with the freshness and optimism of the season typified by the flower bracts of var.. The unfurling leaves of deciduous subjects are youthfully blond, and plant breeders have selected to enhance and extend this trait. Shrubs such ‘Aurea’, x ‘Goldflame’ and ‘Golden Princess’ sport bright new foliage that darkens only slowly and never becomes dull.
