When choosing shrubs for fall color, serviceberry and sumac leaves turn red and orange. For purplish tones, use various shrub dogwoods, and for yellowish-gold leaves, plant Nanking cherry. For a stark winter look, try the craggy-branched Kentucky coffee tree, or the Ohio buckeye and oaks, which have a wonderful branching structure. Snowberries and coralberries keep colorful fruit through the winter. Serviceberries have grayish bark with a reddish cast that can be very unexpected color in the winter.
Mountain mahogany has persistent seed heads that give a silvery look to the Garden.
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