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“Some plants, like heather, blue fescue, lavender, nandina and ceanothus, tend to not be long lived in an urban landscape,” Goetz observes.

Skirting the stems of the dogwood with the dwarf nandina provides contrasting form while fanning the flames of the color study.

Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ is a compact form of heavenly bamboo that forms a mounded 2-by-2-foot tuffet of slightly puckered evergreen foliage.

The familiar workhorses of the birds’ berry buffet, like Pyracantha and holly, mountain ash and Nandina, are all pretty enough.

My grandmother talked about her roses, her nandina, her gardenia, her voice thick southern prose.