This week we had our peak fall color. Not to be confused with a peek at fall color which we will do also!. Our fall color is loaded with maples, sassafras, and a few other trees along the way. We’re gifted to have our property situated on one side of a woods that gives us a great fall color view. I’ll start by highlighting the plants near the house. There will probably be a second post on the fall color since not everything has turned yet.
This birch is planted little too close to the house. Remember right plant right place? Yeah, right… I considered moving it but it’s probably too large for that now. I’ll let it be then cut it down when it becomes and issue. We’ve enjoyed the privacy it’s created by our deck and would hate to lose that!
‘Shasta’ viburnum is one of my favorite shrubs. It’s a doublefile viburnum which produces two rows of flowers along its branches. Although ‘Shasta’ is supposed to produce red berries mine has never done so, it probably doesn’t have the right pollinator nearby.
From our birdbath garden without a birdbath.One of these days I need to solder the copper birdbath back together.
Many of the perennials here have already succumbed to the frosts. We’ve had several already.
I found this scene very representative of my garden. A rustic pallet made compost bin with golden colored maples all around and two random nursery pots laying beside an old cow fence. A true scene of gardener’s gold?
We’ll end this post today with a closeup of those golden colored maple leaves. Fall color really turned out great even though I was afraid it wouldn’t. Don’t forget to check out the other fall color posts at the Fall Color Project!
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Awesome display of color, I wish we had such a display here in Australia.
The trees in the woods are beautiful. I wish I had room for that Doublefile Viburnum, it is a gorgeous plant.
Eileen
Now it is your turn for the Fall colors. Here we have come almost to the very end. There are a few out in the garden this morning. Took some more photos for my records of the season. The many colors are nice to see. I recently posted on my blog a number of pictures of the area here and they capture this are near Lake Michigan, but remind us all, Winter is not far behind! Jack
You are indeed lucky to have the borrowed views of those gorgeous woodlands, Dave. It has been the pretties fall color here, as well.
Looking Around For Fall Foliage
Frances
Beautiful Tennessee! Love it and try to spend as much time outdoors as possible here's my post nd I apologize for the two deleted comments can't get my link to work! gail http://www.clayandlimestone.com/2011/11/take-time-to-sit-in-your-garden.html
Thank you for the great pics, looking at them you can almost feel the crisp fall air that we are so lacking of in Florida. We also get very little of the beautiful color changes.