The "Lady in Red" is a unique plant for hedging and landscaping accents. This deciduous shrub loses its leaves at the end of each season. The leaves display a range of colors from golden reds to deep purplish crimsons and have a delicate, almost paper-like design. A distinctive feature is the shrub's paper-like bark which peels and sheds from the main branches. Pale-pink to cream-coloured flowers appear in summer in corymbs, which are flowerheads with buds clustered together in a wider plane from a single stalk. After flowering, it forms brown, bladder-like fruits. The Physocarpus thrives in sun to partial shade; sunlight intensity affects leaf brilliance. It is well-suited for urban settings, providing unusual landscaping accents and tolerating poorer air quality, making it ideal for urban hedging and accenting beds and borders. Physocarpus are bushy deciduous suckering shrubs with palmately lobed leaves and corymbs of small cream flowers in early summer, followed by small, bladdery brown fruits.