Purple Chokeberry - Aronia x prunifolia Shade Loving Stems left in the garden

Stems left in the garden can provide late season interest as the pleasant green leaves crisp and create a dark nearly orange contrast to the pale winter palette

providing food for birds and small mammals

Not to mention the bonus bounties of elegant

This refined Baptisia hybrid offers generous branching and successive waves of bloom

the classic azalea flowers cover the branches of this vase-shaped shrub every spring

Purple Chokeberry - Aronia x prunifolia Shade Loving Stems left in the gardenThis upright, thicket forming shrub holds interest in all seasons, with charming white flowers in spring, abundant clusters of reddish purple berries that last into winter, and wine red foliage in the fall. Great for mass plantings around low wet areas where suckers will spread and grow, creating the botanical equivalent of a gossiping flock of birds gathered around the bird bath, or a couple of coworkers congregating at the water fountain. Theyll