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| Viburnum 'Cardinal Candy' |
This year we've had a very colorful fall and the show isn't over yet. There's still color in them there leaves!
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| Fothergilla with aromatic asters. |
Some plants are just beginning to reach their peak of color now in early November, like the Fothergilla in the photo above. I wish the asters next to it were a bit bloomier, but the color combination never fails to amaze me.
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| Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) |
My original aromatic aster continues to produce prodigious blooms--the pollinators love it, it's about the only flower that lasts this late into the fall.
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| Japanese maples on east side |
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| Japanese maples l. to r.: Bloodgood, no Id, Full Moon |
Much of my labors in the garden each fall consists of expanding and consilidating my flower beds. This year it was time to dig up the Mount Hood daffodils under the Japanese maple 'Amber Ghost' that were over-crowded. I extended the bed out and joined the 'Texas White' redbud tree to make it part of the same bed before replanting the daffodils and grape hyacinths beneath the trees.
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| Reworked bed with 'Amber Ghost' and 'Texas White' redbud. |
Next spring I'll consolidate this enlarged bed with the one behind it, for one much larger island bed. The Shasta daisies in the Badlands bed didn't bloom much this year, despite the generous summer rains, so I'll probably transplant those and put them in the grassy strip that will unite those two beds on the west side of the back yard.
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| The "Badlands' in late October. |
Other spring-flowering bulbs also need to be dug up, thinned and re-planted. I hope the glorious weather will hold out long enough for me to get this done before the ground freezes hard. I wonder what sort of winter is in store for us?
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| The front yard in late October. |
