Spiraea 'Merlo Green', 3L Dog Coats with a three-bar curved seat

with a three-bar curved seat back and elegantly tapered legs

'Mountain Dusk' is a serene oil on canvas piece depicting rolling hills and three of their inhabitants

funnel flowers with a yellow eye

bushy form

Its varying green tones radiate a sense that it has been plucked from an ethereal forest

Spiraea 'Merlo Green', 3L Dog Coats with a three-bar curved seatThe bushy shrub Spiraea japonica Merlo Green earns its keep in the border, offering not only foliage that changes colour with the seasons but also bright pink flowers that attract pollinators. Leaves emerge purple red in spring before turning darker plum, then during summer they change to green, in time to act as a foil against the clusters of tiny bright pink flowers. Foliage then has one last hurrah, colouring coppery bronze before falling in late