![]() ![]() It’s neither particularly graceful in growth habit, for example, nor is it possessed of especially handsome foliage. Likewise, when in full summer leaf the deciduous shrub known as Viburnum x bodnantense appears a very ordinary plant with little to recommend it. pekinensis ‘Tortuosa’), two ornamental trees whose spiralling branches look oddly artificial in full summer leaf (think ‘tree with a perm’) but starkly beautiful in their winter bareness. It’s a similar story for the corkscrew willow (Salix ‘Erythroflexuosa’) and the dragon’s claw willow (Salix babylonica var. But look at the same plant in summer and you’d be forgiven for wondering if it was suffering from some odd disease, so strangely deformed do its contorted leaves appear. Even more so in early spring, when those still-bare, sculptural branches are laden down with dangling gold-green catkins. ![]() For example, stripped of its deciduous leaves, its curling bare branches exposed with the arrival of late autumn, the contorted hazel (Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’) is a thing of pared-back beauty. Not unlike some humans, some plants look their best naked.
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