'Mastsubara Red' Japanese Apricot Easy to Grow If you need to brighten

If you need to brighten up a shady area in your garden

The seed pods provide food for many birds as well

Blooming from summer into fall the large fragrant royal purple panicles emerge just in time to provide a feast for butterflies and other pollinators

wide at maturity

'Mastsubara Red' Japanese Apricot Easy to Grow If you need to brightenWhen the garden is at its bleakest and most gardeners have retreated indoors with their seed catalogs, 'Matsubara Red' struts onto the scene like it owns the placebecause in late winter, it absolutely does. This small deciduous tree reaches 15 to 20 feet in both height and width, forming an upright, vase shaped silhouette that serves as the perfect backdrop for its pice de rsistance: masses of fully double, deep red flowers that are reportedly the