sweet on sweetshrub
always the bridesmaid, never the bride.” That is exactly how I heard this stellar group of shrubs introduced in my first college plant-materials class. The sentiment was that (and there was only one flavor recognized back in those days) was a shrub best relegated to the back of the perennial garden, as a member of the mixed shrub border (because surely it couldn’t stand on its own) or otherwise naturalized at the edge of a woodland. Not exactly what you put on your application to
