Show Us Your Pictures 4

[AnneKipanki]

Just a little fourward planning . We are all looking forward to another thread of fabulous pictures. It can be a quiet time but I am sure some of us will have autumnal colours to share . The trees are starting to turn here . I have just picked an allium from my photo collection to start the thread off .
You are very welcome to finish or visit the old thread . I do not know how to do ... this is the old thread here thing .

Hello All!
What is happening in your autumn gardens? I'd love to see some beautiful fall colour.

I was looking through my window at my back garden and thought I saw a strange bird with cream coloured plume-like tail feathers quickly zipping by. It flew by so fast that I couldn't place what kind of bird it could be....after some investigation I discovered that it was just a sparrow with a bit of pampas grass plume in it's mouth! Several sparrows continued this activity regularly throughout the day...it was fascinating to watch...the plumes were much bigger than the little birdies. I finally went round to the side garden to check on my pampas grass...several stalks were missing plumes but there are still plenty to go around...Im just happy to see that the little birdies are finding seeds and nesting materials in my garden. Especially since I didnt even plant the pampas...a long gone bird must have dropped a few seeds in my side garden years ago and it has flourished for future generations...isn't nature wonderful! I dont even need to attend to the p.grass and we haven't had one drip if rain since 7 July ...very drought tolerant!

You can see on the photo of the pampas grass where lots of plumes have been plucked from the stalks on the right. The other photo is of one of the dropped plumes that fell into my ice plant and firecracker flowers.

I have some but my phone won't let me send or log in to desktop.

Cherry trees and beech hedge.a
Argh !

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@AnneRIPanki
Thank you for sharing your Fall colours with us! Truly gorgeous...In the photo without the sky, is this the same gardens you showed us earlier when flowers were blooming.? I love the way some of the different leaves in the foreground have taken on blue hues

It is a different area @Sweetpea1532 .

You can see big dark green leaves on the left , they are the ones with the big white fronds in the summer .

I am waiting for my Fothergilla to get more colourful to d the other border .

This is the summer one from a different angle

This was taken a couple of weeks ago near where I park my car, beautiful.

Lovely against that blue sky @userxx

@AnneRIPanki
That leaf covered wall is gorgeous, too. And the tree behind it
@userxx
I love those leaves..so much colour!

Living in California for a long time has made me forget all about the beauty of the Fall colours. Not missing all the raking though

This is a plea to keep this thread going through winter,it'll be great for future planting to see what others have brightening up winter. I'm off to the garden to take a few snaps of things that are hanging on to the last of summer.

This evergreen star jasmine is a great plant, the flowers smell fantastic and the foliage is great. It grows much slower than ivy and doesn't shed leaves like Virginia creeper so it's perfect for covering a wall.

Too much rain, the remaining plants are all bedraggled, not much of a photo opportunity. These pits of chrsanthes look cheerful though.

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My bidens are hanging on !

Fothergilla is golden at the moment

@AnneKipanki,
I see you got your screen name back!
That fothergilla is gorgeous with its golden leaves...looks like a spotlight is shining on it

@Flatpackback
I'd love to see everyone 's flowers through the winter, too...
Great idea. Your flowers are so colourful...what is that vibrant burgundy vine in the post where you mentioned the star jasmine? It's lovely!
I'm back in the southern part of the US....just in time for the Fall colours. The dogwoods are turning now. Tomorrow I'll see what I can find around my mum's garden....I bet there are some camellias out there.
We've just experienced the remnants of Hurricane Zeta...high winds and 100's of trees falling over onto peoples houses and autos...most of the trees were giant beautiful old oak trees. And some pinetrees...no electricity for 2 days.

It is horrendous the damage the wrong sort of weather can do @Sweetpea1532 .

@AnneKipanki
Yes, it sure is !
It is very sad to lose these beautiful old trees....but unfortunately most people can't afford tree maintenance at close to $1000/tree...and the trees provide much needed shade from the roasting summer sun, so homeowners don't want to take them out even though many of the oaks are rotten at the base. After lightning struck one of my parents' 50 foot pine trees several times causing the lightning to jump over to the house, they decided for safety reasons to remove 50 trees! And they still have lots more. The 50-60 foot pines act as lightning rods.
With all the rain, the trees get very top heavy and the ground gets saturated, so sometimes even the slightest puff of wind will cause them to topple.

Your evergreen in the background of your photos is so beautiful and healthy looking and looks to be a safe distance from your home.

Its kind of fascinating to see the base of the trees that have fallen and realize how shallow the root system actually is like in the last photo I attached. The family had just purchased the home because they loved the big oak tree in the front garden 😭...no more lovely tree out front!

The tree behind the fothergilla is Pinus Silvestris ( Scot's Pine ) . We planted it as a 10 year old tree . It has certainly grown.
The other tree to the right is a Cedrus Deodora. It is very old and it does have a lean .
We are in a tree preservation area so we can't trim trees or take them down without permission.

@AnneKipanki
Both of your trees are lovely and really bring your garden together.
More tree preservation needs to be done here in the Southern US! They are wiping out so many beautiful forests to build high density multi-family homes. It used to be common practice to cut the forests when the trees got too tall and then replant...but not anymore! I don't even want to think about the destruction thats taken place.

My new cactus garden! I salvaged the pieces that broke off from the mother cactus when we had really hot weather awhile back. Fingers crossed they take root