Cait's Garden

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post about plants with colorful fall foliage. I can’t claim the lovely front yard in the photo…it belongs to my mother…but I simply had to share how great this looks. This photo was taken today and just look at the color! And almost all of it is from shrubbery, like spirea, ninebark, viburnum, and even miniature weigela. A few perennials (sedum, tall and short) and some amazingly tough annuals (alyssum) add to the mix. I was really knocked out to see the show of color. This is some seriously good landscaping!

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Having had a fairly lucky gardening year, I would be remiss not to post to this blog on the special date of 11-11-11. Happy Numerological Oddity Day! Well, frost has finally come to my garden, but still not as hard as it has in past Novembers. I have a few splashes of purple mums, hardy geraniums, and even alyssum still fighting the good fight. I wanted to make mention of some flowers that pull double-season duty by putting on a good show of colored foliage in the fall. On the left is a sedum called “Neon” which appropriately has foliage that glows this time of year. On the right is a balloon flower. Balloon flowers, in addition to being long blooming in the summer, put on quite the show of colors in the fall. So you will find me both looking up at the trees and looking down at my plants this month as I try to soak it all in. May this day bring good luck to all my faithful blog readers and gardening friends!

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