One key to a great landscape is that it looks good year around.   It’s really pretty easy to have a showy spring or summer display.   To have an attractive yard that you can look out onto through your window in January and smile is more challenging.  Selecting plants that provide year around interest should be the goal of every gardener.  Today, I’d like to talk about two such plants. A pair of related small maple trees with great winter bark, the Three Flower Maple and the Paperbark … [Read more...]