The sticky smell of petunias, the cinnamon flavor of the snapdragons…
Every year is different, but this year we chose snap dragons, plum petunias, wine petunias, pink angelonia, pink and red geraniums, dusty miller, whit alyssum for the edges, red and purple verbena, trailing sweet potato vine in both green and purple, euphorbia, and, my special secret, dahlia bulbs.
Yes, you should prune crossing branches to let light into the tree, but you don’t need to cut most of the tree away.