Both are fast-growing summer bloomers that can deliver passion fruit.

When I was there in October, greenery dominated; by now, red- and yellow-twigged dogwoods have replaced the dahlias and other summer bloomers.

Summer Color Q. I would like to have color in my garden all season but want to use more interesting summer bloomers than marigolds.

And the old fountain - drained because so many homeless people bathed there - is now full of summer bloomers like Indian Summer rudbeckia and 10-foot-tall purple ironweed.

But now, as frost turns summer bloomers to brown rags, tall, sumptuous goldenrods tower over the mailbox and along the side of the road, as if invigorated by recent chilly nights.

A green wall of fastigiate yews adds a year-round backdrop for masses of colorful summer bloomers as well as a specimen weeping mulberry, which flowers but does not bear messy fruit.

Here are several other summer flowering shrubs the experts like (if you cannot find summer bloomers at a local nursery, mail-order suppliers are useful, although some may not ship until fall):

These tall summer bloomers will spruce up all those faceless green leaves of the daffodil beds (which should not be trimmed, because these leaves are making food for the bulbs that will bloom next spring).

Prune summer bloomers in the spring or winter.

But two generally reliable guidelines are to prune spring bloomers right after flowering and to prune summer bloomers in early spring, right before new growth starts.