The Garden of Bogturtle

  This particular clone of Viburnum nudum, the 'Possum Haw', I think, was selected at the Delaware Winterthur Gardens and Museum and is called 'Brandywine'. After the Brandywine River, that flows tea colored, as do so many of our streams, here in NJ. The shrub does develop a beautiful mahogany color for Fall. As I have said, before, two different clones are needed if fruit is to come, and there appears to be none, this year. The berries on this clone go from pale to salmon to dark blue, if I recall correctly, and are decorative. Another clone named 'Fallshades' was across the yard. I will have to check if it is still there. It may well have been shaded out by the massive growth of neighboring shrubs, there. V. nudum is native to NJ, but I have never seen it in the wild.  Above is a photo from some previous year, some September, that shows the colors of V. nudum 'Brandywine'.  A lifetime ago a neighbor gave me the Aster.  It has wandered and bloomed by th