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My Autumn #1

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This is a pictorial of my autumn landscape from after the first cool days, but before the first hard frost. To know more of the plants… as they say, read on.

The berries of the top left are from Viburnum carlesii, my favorite viburnum I think. My fav today, anyway. The berries below are the weed, Pokeweed. Top far right, is the Euphorbia “Bonfire”, gorgeous in all seasons, but especially in fall.
Top middle are new plantings of “Jack Frost” Brunnera with Foxglove, and the Michaelmas daisies after they have been jack frosted for the first time which withers but does not completely destroy the flower color. Our good wood supply for what portends to be a mighty cold winter. Below which you see to the left the always lovely “Endless Summer” hydrangea- autumn tints of the most beautiful rose; and the sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua –fact PDF) just coming into color.

The fringe tree to the right is showing a tinge of color, it is in its golden yellow phase only now. Then larger view from different angle with a leftover calendula which likes to bloom up until hard frosts fell it. Next, a view of the new “Morning Light” miscanthus against the spreading taxus , under the “Prairiefire” crab, which didn’t fruit as well this year. ending with a view of the blue spruce which will remain that ghostly bluegray throughout the winter season.

About Ilona Erwin

I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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  1. Nell Jean says

    Your autumn is more colorful than mine, Ilona. I think we have more color a little later when cool comes to stay.

    Did your blog start out as a personal garden journal that grew? I like it.

  3. Janet says

    Love your collage. I like the use of the info links. 😉 well done. I LOVEEEEE Viburnum carlesii and have plans for a number of them in our new landscape.

  4. Ilona says

    thanks, Janet, you will be very happy with v. carlesii. I think it is a beautiful bush and the fragrance is beautiful.

    Nell Jean, I’m so glad you like it 🙂
    It did start out as a very simple journal… when I got tired of trying to do it on an html page.

    Elizabeth,I leave pokeweed now that I don’t have children of the age that might eat them. I used to really worry about that and always cut them down before… but they are actually sort of pretty with their red stems and midnight blue berries.

    Thanks for all the input, friends 🙂