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Article: Keeping Spirits Bright; Scarlet Twigs, Golden Grasses Offset Winter's Gloom
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 4, 1996
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Creating effective landscape scenes in winter is a way of
sustaining the gardener in the bleakest season.
These picture-postcard settings can be achieved with just a
few select plants used imaginatively.
Look now for pleasing images of the winter garden and record
them; your own planting will have to wait until the spring. One
such scene might be of a row of scarlet twigs, brilliant against the
snow and a backdrop to a companion strip of swirling grasslike
blades. These plantings can form a pleasing barrier between a yard
and road.
The scarlet twigs belong to a species of dogwood that never
turns into a tree. Sometimes called twiggy, Westonbirt or Siberian
dogwood, its botanic ...