Fall is on its way. The Coral Bark maple is starting to show some color.
I've replaced all the dead hydrangeas with these Hydrangea Paniculata 'Lime Light' plants. I hope they do better!
I've also added some sedums (Autumn Joy) and a short variety of golden rod along the upper part of this bed. I'm planning to interplant some pink phlox and garlic chives around the sedums -- you'll see why in the pictures below.
The winterberries are starting to color up.
See what I mean about this combination? I love it!
And here's the phlox and sedum combo.
I've started some lettuce and cauliflower in the veggie patch. You can see I still have a few plants of arugula going (on the far right).
The zinnias are VERY happy!
This is a caryopertis (sp?) that I bought mailorder and it came as a tiny plant. It's at least 3 feet x 3 feet now and I am loving the pretty blue flowers this time of year!
You can see how the garden filled in this summer. I've started planting dwarf mondo grass between the pavers - I think I'll really like it in a few years when its all filled in.
The butterflies are loving the pentas. Can you see the black and blue one there?
This is a sweet flag (a type of yellow iris) that I had in the pond but its happier living in the damp spot created by the water dripping out of hte a/c condensor.
The fire thorn (pyracanthus sp?) is getting so pretty - I cut back all the scraggly bits that don't have berries. For the holidays I plan to cut back the parts with berries that are not flush against the garage and get it under control even more.
This grass has been very pretty in the urns. I'm thinking of planting them along 10th avenue - my new "fall garden" - and putting little evergreens of some sort in the urns for the winter.
The scarlet runner beans have been pretty and lush all summer. But next year I'm going to try one with a less vivid color!
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