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Shrub with good autumn colour

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  • turmericturmeric Posts: 830
    Thanks Bee.  I've not come across that plant before.  I shall investigate.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Or Spirea "Goldflame". Stays small, vivid pinky/red leaves in spring, turning yellowy later (does rather clash with the pink flowers but you can always cut them off!) and autumn colouring. Not an evergreen though.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've just remembered Nandina domestica (heavenly bamboo). Again very slow growing, interesting leaves, white flowers, red berries which remain all winter.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    Try Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt', wonderful autumn colours on the foliage, all mahoganys and burnished copper..  the plant needs staking at bloom time..

    Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and 'Matrona' bloom into November, the flowers contrast with the colours of the season... 'AJ' goes a nice autumnal red  colour...

    Berberis 'Admiration' is a deciduous small shrub, with red foliage all summer which darkens in Autumn..

    East Anglia, England
  • turmericturmeric Posts: 830
    Thanks Lizzie :)
  • turmericturmeric Posts: 830
    These are brilliant suggestions everyone.  Marlorena, your post came through after I had thanked Lizzie, so thank you too!
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Fuchsias don't start flowering until well on in the summer, and mine usually still have a few in December. You can get them in a wide range of colours, and what I love about them is that they never need deadheading, the fading flowers drop of their own accord, so they don't look messy.
  • I second the spirea goldflame. I love the colour of the foliage.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    I second the spirea goldflame. I love the colour of the foliage.
    It must be a Marmite thing ... it's one of my pet 'dislikes'  ... particularly with the pink  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • UpNorthUpNorth Posts: 376
    Lizzie27 said:
    Or Spirea "Goldflame". Stays small, vivid pinky/red leaves in spring, turning yellowy later (does rather clash with the pink flowers but you can always cut them off!) and autumn colouring. Not an evergreen though.
    discovered the 'new' foliage of this Spirea just recently....looks really great.  will keep my eye on it over Autumn.  
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