Best known for brilliant fall color, this popular landscape shrub is impossible to miss once the leaves change in autumn. Striking fall foliage is nicely offset by blue-foliaged plants, chrysanthemum and aster. Use for hedge, screen, accent and specimen.

Lovely flowers complemented by rich, aromatic foliage create a cloudlike effect in the garden or mixed shrub planting. Striking with red valerian, lavender, crape myrtle and Jerusalem sage. Attracts butterflies. Cut back to the ground in spring. Drought tolerant and deer resistant.

A harbinger of warmer days, this spring-flowering shrub teems with brilliant flowers before the leaves emerge. Combines well with spring-flowering bulbs and evergreens. Great as a hedge or screen, offset against a wall, or as a specimen. Prune every year after flowering.