"For me, and for many other garden lovers, this is one of the most enjoyable times of the year," muses Steve Jones. "Rather like small children imagining the pile of colorfully-wrapped gifts they’ll find under the tree on Christmas morning, we look through catalogs or browse online and visualize vibrant clusters of showy shrubs that will burst forth next spring as a result of our fall planting." What shrubs does Steve recommend for planting this autumn? Find out in his recent Plant Man column on shrub selections.

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