Specialty Gardening: The end of my exuberant garden , 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
pennefeather,
I use some of the non gardening winter time to draw elaborate garden plans. There is always more room to place yet another plant in imaginary space even when I've run out of actual space.

lincolnitess,
Your August garden photo is very pretty, I always enjoy your garden.

I still have some flowers blooming, the native honeysuckle( Lonicera sempervirens) is still putting on a wonderful display, but it's the changing leaf color of the plants I'm enjoying now. The red in the leaf of the penstemon digitalis Husker Red is particularly nice this year and by chance I purchased red mums and the lonicera sempervirens is blooming red. The blue of the Baptisias are really showing intensity and the grasses and remaining asters have a soft purple haze. Just when you think it's almost over the garden offers brilliant surprises.