So, we moved into this house in late January 2007 - we had a blizzard the month before and the yards were all still covered in a couple feet of snow. There weren't any summer or fall pictures of the yard, so we didn't really know what the plants in our yard were until spring/summer rolled around. Example: back in the spring I got very excited by 2 "vines" that were growing very quickly next to our rosebushes...only to realize when they hit 8 feet tall that they were actually Aspen trees.
With that experience behind me, I wondered about some of the shrubs around our fence line - the ones that were just kind of green and leafy. How to know if they were really shrubs or just some overgrown weed? Several of them answered my question by producing copious yellow flowers in May. But there remained this one shrub that kept proliferating at a fast rate (reminiscent of my Aspen "vines) that never had any flowers. I toyed with the idea of removing it, but never really got around to it.
Fast-forward to last week - and it turns out that mysterious shrub turns a bright, gorgeous red in the fall! I still don't have a clue what it is - but now I've noticed that several of our neighbors have one as well. Anyone have any ideas as to what type of shrub it is?
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