I like this Rhodotypos scandens a lot. The sharp veining to the leaves, the lax habit and the flower are a close parallel of the Kerria. This flowers just a little later.
The four petals are a very striking feature. Occasionally it will self-seed.
Amelanchier Lamarckii or Juneberry
Beautiful white blossom now appearing alongside the bronze coloured juvenile leaves.
These turn green as summer progresses then orange and red in autumn. The flowers are followed by small berries in mid summer, which turn from green to red to blue/black if the birds don't get them first. There are not many other 'small garden' sized deciduous trees/shrubs that gives so much interest from spring through to autumn.
Garden Answer: Groundcover Plant Haul! 
Lilacs are tough, beautiful, and wonderfully fragrant...
The Show Notes are up for GardenDC Podcast Episode 234: Lilacs with Dr. Mark DeBard
Listen at -
https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2025/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-234-lilacs.html or at https://youtu.be/D-P_NgHXdzk?si=Fnsf7HfluQg3c5k_
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Looks like the purple chokeberries will have some blossoms this year. They were planted 4 years ago but moved from the original too hot/dry location last year.
Garden Answer: Planting Up a Shade Flower Bed! 
Garden Answer: Making a Spring Flower Arrangement, Up-Potting Foxglove & Greenhouse Tour! 
Garden Answer: Rose and Hydrangea Cutback + Feeding the Garden! 
Garden Answer: Spring Pond Clean-Out & Plant Maintenance Around the Pond! 
I loved this scenic view in Capitol Reef National Park because of all the layers of flora and rock formations from a foreground of shrubs and grasses to distant background red rock cliffs. The scene shows the rugged beauty of the desert environment.
#capitolreef #nationalpark #landscape #landscapephotography #utah #rocks #rocky #erosion #geology #artistic #shrubs #grasses #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #artforsale #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll
https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/capitol-reef-national-park-utah-landscape-joan-carroll.html
This is one of my favourite plants. There was once a time when it was so common in gardens that it was viewed with snobbery. Too easy to grow. Too bright.
It is Kerria. I hardly ever see it now. I grow it in what passes for a tiny woodland clearing.
When first planted, the crows reacted furiously to the flowers and did a wrecking job. I have no idea what was going on in their heads.
Fall colors from the scrublands outside of Yakima, Washington. The brightest colors were in a narrow band following a creek bed.
Silvery shrubs from the desert region of Washington State - Artemisia tridentata, aka Big Sagebrush.
It's a big shrub not a small tree. I'm tempted to sneak back to the first toot and whistle casually while changing the hashtag from #Trees to #Shrubs before running off. But that would be misusing the spirit of Mastodon's Edit function. My ignorance shall stand. (I did throw in 'Perhaps it's a bush?' in the AltText but that may be even worse: I knew I might be wrong but didn't bother to check.)
Glasbær. Bodinier's beautyberry. Thanks to @SorenMRiis and @pms for great info.
Shrubs and Hedges by Eva Monheim, 2020
A practical, ordinary person's guide to choosing, planting, and caring for the world's most popular plants, Shrubs & Hedges delivers all the know-how you'll need to grow beautiful, healthy shrubs.
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#hedges
Our hedge has been fine for many years and for the first 18yrs I called it indestructible too, as this article attests, that is its nature.
The last few years it's been defying the claim of durability and we're getting spontaneous mid-summer dying of a stem at a time, really decimating our hedge.
Not much info on line about #caragana afflictions. Powder mildew and pests don't seem to be involved. Good moisture, and drainage.
I grow trees from seed & require big pots, not decorator ones, but those soft, one-time use, for trees/shrubs at garden centers. Most staff have met me before & give me their discard soft-side tree pots. One, hadn't emptied them yet, I said I'd take them for the potting soil, & I revived the shrubs.
It was a dead stick with a label that said HYDRANGEA $39. It's kept pruned to 4 foot high now. I need a blue one now, if you've got a cutting for me?
