Trees & Shrubs for Brilliant Fall Colors in Sudbury
Fall is one of the best times of year for gardeners to enjoy the splendid displays of nature’s beauty while thinking of how they can improve the colors of their own gardens. Autumn is my favorite time of year for planting trees and shrubs. If you can bear the mosquitoes you will find that most anything you stick in the ground will grow this time of year. Of course some of us can stick a fence post into the ground and it will sprout leaves. But for those of you who have two black thumbs there is hope if you plant in the fall. Visitors from other parts of the country are drawn away from the yellows of their own forests to New England for the vivid reds, scarlets, oranges, yellow-oranges, and copper colors. While much of the display comes from the native trees a lot of the texture comes from shrubs and vines, many of them put in place by you and me. My list of the top flowering trees, shrubs and vines for the Sudbury gardener would fill a couple of legal pads, but here are so...