One branch of the red maple tree is showing beautiful color.

A reblooming irs has decided to rebloom. I can't find the tag (with all those weeds it's no wonder!) so unsure of the variety. I bought the rhizomes from Brecks, but this doesn't look like any of the irises in the Brecks reblooming iris collection.

A few pics after the rain we had on Thursday.

Sugar Maple

Some of the Hosta are beginning senescence.

Coleus

Redblood Japanese Maple

Hydrangea Twist and Shout continues to bloom its head off.

The late blooming Hosta still look good. This is Marilyn Monroe.

The Brug has continued to go to town with more and more flowers and fragrance each day. No frost yet.

More rain today after an inch on Thursday. Love it.

Steve

Not much in the way of fall foliage here and most of my hostas (hosta?) have slug holes in the leaves.

The Miscanthus are dominant in my yard. They're everywhere and I'm seeing seedlings as well.

M. 'Malepartus'

This is what I walk through as I leave the porch.

Hardy begonia (B. grandis 'Heron's Pirouhette') is still blooming although past peak.

It's near the cotoneaster patch and the berries continue to be decorative. They don't seem to be tasty - maybe they'll be eaten later on when the birds and critters are less fussy.

This cotoneaster branch is next to the big Blue Angel and a Guardian Angel hosta. The slugs seem to have missed them.

This Pieris 'Little Heath' is covered with flower buds - there should be a good show in the Spring (Spring will come sooner than last year, won't it?).

You can see the winterberry behind it if you squint.

And the Carefree Beauty rose is still sporadically blooming. There are many hips but they aren't orange yet so I didn't photograph them.

Claire

This is not a pretty picture but it shows what we're up to and how much work we have ahead of us. This slope is in our side yard. It's almost completely covered in flowering raspberry, though there are lots of ferns further down and some lilies that didn't bloom this year. Yesterday we decided to cut down a bunch of the raspberry bushes and see what the terrace looks like underneath. We knew about the lower stone wall but had never seen the upper one before.

The raspberry is so aggressive that it is growing through the stone walls and destabilizing them in places. At the end of the cleared section, right before the raspberry starts up again, is a stone staircase. There's another stone staircase further down that will need to be rebuilt, as part of it washed away at some point.

The cleared section pictured is maybe 1/10 of the total terrace. Our plan is to reclaim the terrace a section at a time over the course of however many years it takes. We're going to clear a bit more to the left of the pictured section, and then over the winter we'll research and plot and make a plan for how to plant this in the spring.

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"Iris Domestica" - on the left are the August blooms and on the right are the October seed pods, hence the common name âÂÂBlackberry LilyâÂÂ

DocFairview: You certainly have a lot of work ahead of you but those two stone walls will be a blessing once you can choose what's growing in that area.

Susan: Your garden is very colorful now! That Swiss chard is blinding. I'm imagining it popping out of an early snowfall.

Everything is more subdued here. My big old Osmanthus heterophyllus is blooming! The flowers are small and inconspicuous but the whole fifteen foot shrub/tree is covered with them. I keep trying but I can't get a decent picture of the whole thing.

It's next to the big old winterberry and for a short while the berries and flowers complement each other. The osmanthus flowers never last until the winterberry leaves are gone - that would be more dramatic.

The faded hydrangea flowers have their own charm (in a subdued fashion).

Climbing hydrangea with rich brown flowers

And Hydrangea 'Blue Billow' with reddish flowers. The leaves haven't turned maroon yet.

Viburnum 'Summer Snowflake' still has a few flowers, but no berries since there's no viburnum still blooming to pollinate them. I'm wondering if I should try to freeze a few doublefile viburnum flowers for the pollen.

Claire

Fall color on our property and the next farm south.
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A wetland I pass on my commute.
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The colors were great this year and lasted longer than usual.

I don't have a lot of newly-blooming plants in the garden, but stuff continues to flower. No frost yet here!

Anemone tomentosa "Robustissima":

I've been getting some nice morning glory blooms, finally:

The New England aster is still going. I've noticed for a while now that if I look at it in the morning, the bees are stumbling around on it, seeming dazed:

Geranium "Rozanne" still going strong. This one seems to have decided it wants to be a wisteria -- it's clambered five feet up a trellis to bloom by the Sweet Autumn clematis:

Marigolds are doing great. It's nice to have such a vivid color in the garden this time of year:

well, if that isn't the coolest thing about Rozanne, i don't know what is!!
mindy

Not much in the way of fall color here on the SE MA coast. I do have blooms on the very late Aster oblongifolius (AKA Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) 'Fanny'.

It's not as good a display as I've had in other years, but I like it with the aged Sedum 'Matrona'.

I didn't grow these pumpkins and gourds myself but I plopped them down for a little Autumn color.

Here with sedums:

And here on the retaining wall:

I made a video of the cotoneaster patch along the stone retaining wall by the house, trying to give a feeling for the mass of berries.
Cotoneaster Patch

Claire

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When I bought these mums, the blossoms were white. But then they turned pink. Luckily the pink matches the pots!

These mums were given to me years ago. They bloomed pinky/purply in my friends garden. They bloom white in my garden. They are a real late bloomer - they didnt bloom until last week.

The reblooming iris is still going strong

I swiped a few gaillardia seed heads near Uncle Toms Bridge in Wellfleet 3 years ago. My garden is full of these blossoms now. I've had blooms since July!

Volunteer Cosmos. I do help spread the seeds!

I've never had a volunteer zinnia before. But this year I got one.

Pixie, it's amazing to see those iris blooms in October!

Still no hard frost here, and a bunch of the morning glories I started in April are finally blooming:

Echinacea seed heads:

A couple phlox are still going:

Snaps:

New bloom on the hydrangea:

And some allium seed heads:

I agree that pixie_lou's iris is astonishing!

My Blushing Knockout rose, as usual, is happily blooming as the weather cools down - here with red-orange sumac in the background.

And the Carefree Beauty rose hips are turning orange while a few pink blooms are still opening.

That's Ilex opaca 'Goldie' on the left - its berries are beginning to turn yellow, but are not quite there yet.

Claire

The front door decorated for the trick or treaters tonight. Since I It is a Friday, I'm expecting about 300 kids.

Beautiful photos as always, everyone!

This has been such a great fall for color!

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Lovely warm colors, T2D!

pixie_lou: Did you really get 300 kids last night on Halloween?

We had three kids, plus one costumed dog (I was expecting between 2 and 6 but I bought enough candy for at least 30 just in case - my favorite kinds of candy of course).

Not much fall color here but lots of grass plumes.

A little light glowing from the pumpkin head:

Claire

Hi Claire. Love the pumpkin attacking the lawn dragon!

Normally we get close to 200 trick or treaters. But this year, being a Friday, I planned for more. I ended up closing my doors and turning off the lights around 8:30 - when DD and her friends got home. I had 7 treats left. So, yes, I got around 300 trick or treaters. (I give out the good stuff, so it cost me around $100 for treats this year).