Glowing Shrub

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Margaret: “Golden cutleaf staghorn sumac ‘Tiger Eyes’ is the glowing thing, nestled into the shoulder of a group of ‘Agincourt Beauty’ lilacs, beside a small toolshed. The green big blob on the foreground right of the photo is the recently damaged Aesculus parviflora, bottlebrush buckeye. This photo shows the side that didn’t get damaged. That is the big grass border in the far distance…and another apple tree to right of grass border in far background. Your axis in the photo is looking west and a teeny bit north, but from back yard (not house). I see the lilacs, ‘Tiger Eyes’ and so forth from my dining room, bath, bedroom (all on west side of house), looking out to the Ilex verticillata border, which is not in this photo but would be a distance to the left of the big grass border in the left background (out of the frame).”

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

In its own way, frost may be one of the most beautiful things to happen in your garden all year . . . Don’t miss it. Like all true beauty, it is fleeting. It will grace your garden for but a short while this morning. . . . For this moment, embrace frost as the beautiful gift that it is.

~Philip Harnden in A Gardener’s Guide to Frost: Outwit the Weather and Extend the Spring and Fall Seasons

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TC August 26, 2008, 5:06 pm

I’m growing two ‘Tiger Eyes’ both of which are in full sun, next to my gravel driveway. One was backed over, and is growing crooked. What would you use to get it back on the “straight and narrow?” They are really bright aren’t they? Almost neon green/yellow at times. Now they’re beginning the fall color show and changing to reddish orange.

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