Wordless Wednesday - Fall 2012

These are photos from five years ago today.  Fall this year looks nothing like this:

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - November, 2016

This may be my last post on my garden until next spring arrives.  I have nothing inside blooming anymore now that all of the orchids are gone.  Outside right now it is a beautiful fall day.

We still have some color:

 Burning Bush

Oak-leaf hydrangea

I still have all the leaves on this tree:

Kousa Dogwood

There are berries that birds haven't yet eaten:

Cranberry viburnum

There are beautiful grasses:

Unfortunately I had to cut down all the zebra grass since it was infected with powdery mildew.

And there are dead flower heads on hydrangeas:

Limelight

Quickfire

The super moon has come and gone:

Those are branches on the Rivers birch around the moon.

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November 1 Already

Where did this year go?  I am putting my garden to bed already.  Here are some pics from the last two weeks of fall activity.

A late blooming groundcover sedum:

Oakleaf hydrangea starting to turn:

Berries on a burning bush:

The view of trees from the front door:

We've had two morning frosts and many of the perennials have turned yellow.  I'll be busy cleaning them up today as the temps hit the 70's.  My yard is so wet during the winter that if I leave the dead leaves on the flowers I have an unbelievable mess in the spring.  Of course, no one told this rose bush that summer is over:

Twitter Update:  So, I posted this and went to Twitter and there it was.  So October 31 is not really October 31?  Who knows.  I'll keep checking.

Wordless Wednesday - Fall

More Fall Color

Maples

Cotoneaster

Sweet Gum

West Bloomfield Nature Preserve

Fall Color before the Snow Flies

They are predicting snow flurries.  Yuck.  Everything is just starting to turn to Fall colors.  Here are a few:

Crabapples just waiting for the birds to devour them:

Viburnum:

 

Hydrangea blooms:

Japanese Maple:

Katsura Tree:

Enjoy your fall while it lasts.

Friday's Fall Foliage

This hasn't been the best fall for dramatic color, but this is what I've got around the yard:

 

Cotoneaster

 

Viburnum

 

 

Burning Bush

 

 

Ninebark 'Summer Wine'

 

 

The neighbor's tree - whatever it is, it didn't look this good all year

 

 

Sweet gum

 

 

The fallen leaves - a clean up job if it ever stops raining here

 

So while I wait, I will listen to 'The Autumn Leaves' in French 

 

  Edith Piaf

 

 

Enjoy your weekend!