Autumn Colors

The Yellow Garden, with a glowing yellow-foliaged silver maple as a yellow backdrop.

 Things really look like autumn around here: leaves turning colors (and some trees completely having lost their leaves already) and mums in bloom. We haven't gotten frost yet so the annual flowers are still going, but they don't look as vigorous as they did six weeks ago. Here are a few scenes from my gardens:



The tiny trees in the West Island, which I planted this year, are dwarfed by the same maple as in the previous photo. I can't wait to see which of the new flowering and evergreen trees and shrubs will make it through the winter, and what they will look like in 5-10 years when they have reached a good size.


Orange mums and marigolds blaze in the corner by our front porch.


The North Border still have lots of zinnias, cosmos and petunias blooming, but they're starting to look a bit more scraggly than they did back in August. It's nice to still have some flowers to see from my kitchen windows though.

Pumpkins harvested from our own gardens, with a few last roses of the season and some dark pink mums.

A closer look behind those mums: look who's found a hidey-spot: It's Little Kitty!


The view of the same silver maple, from inside our house. Autumn leaves are scattered around the pergola, and most of the surrounding White Garden flowers are finished blooming. This room in our house is the one where our wood burning stove is located, and I'm looking forward to spending some cozy days in front of the fire here.

Hope your own autumn scenes are easing the transition to the non-flowering months for you too. It looks like we might have frost this weekend, but I hope nevertheless that we all have a few more warm days to enjoy. Thanks for reading! -Beth

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