Horticulture

Worth a Spot

Most people with small gardens want the same thing: a beautiful, dynamic garden that looks good yet also marks the passing of the seasons with flowers and fall color. What they don’t want is a garden overwhelmed with plants too big for the space. One sees it all the time—the holly that was so petite at the garden center has now taken over an entire postage-stamp garden. Or one spends all their spare time trimming back overlarge azaleas and viburnums to the point that they become shapeless blobs.

Finding plants that can scale into small spaces can be a challenge. More often than not, the solution lies not with popular

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