Mountain laurels (Kalmia latifolia) have wonderfully sculpted branches. They make wonderful fences, gates, hand-railings, and decorative additions to water features. My colleague Ginny is an expert at creating delightfully-crafted garden elements out of mountain laurel's gnarled branches.
This porch railing, at Elk Knob Farm (on last weekend's Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project's Family Farm Tour), was a wonderful example of how lovely branches are, and how artfully they can be incorporated.
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