It's Fall in New England #3

Closer look at the log.

Closer....

A different log. I love these moss covered logs.

More swamp maple foliage.

Hamamelis foliage. Don't know the variety.

Old burn pile covered with moss.

Closer look at that moss.

Foliage from Hamamelis 'Diane'

Another shot of her foliage.

One more shot. Just 4 more months and she'll be blooming!

Foliage of the 'Ogon' Dawn Redwood.

Victor, I love this Dawn Redwood, don't you?

Pathway through my Dry Garden area leading to the Secret Garden area. Looking rather sad now. I have heard the 'Ogon' sedum may not make it through the winter here. It's marginally hardy. Here's hoping it will.

That's all for tonight.

Karen

You got some great color there Karen.

beautiful oranges

Love the witch hazel leaf! I lust for them. Also the redwood! Why not mulch your sedum? I save my butterfly bushes each year by mulching. Snow cover helps too. I am considered z5 but I lose z5 plants in a cold winter so I tend to get z4 plants and mulch the 5 & 6ers. I'm in the process of mulching the roses and the garden is 99% cut down. Only bushes and trees still standing.

Great series, Karen. Yes, I really love Dawn. Mine is just turning now.

Beautiful Karen, such an array of vivid oranges!!

i like the foliage on the paperbark maple!

I've never seen a dawn redwood before--beautiful! I love the lawnchair and moss shots also! Now get back to bed and rest! ^_^--Nurse Hurd has spoken!

Feel better, Phoebe!

Thanks Victor!

I've been watching this thread from the beginning. I've viewed every post and I'd just like to say how much I enjoy seeing your beautiful Autumn colours. I can only imagine what it must be like to look into a canopy of blazing reds, oranges and yellows.

Hi Margaret!!

Hi Victor. How's it going?

Fine. How are things at your end of the planet?!! ^_^

Very windy and getting warmer. They're predicting rain (what's that?) two days next week. I won't hold my breath. Everything is already drying up.

Bummer. Hope you get some.

beautiful shots Karen!!... I am with Boo on the witch hazel ... I would love one too

Hi Margaret
We in the northern states are always thrilled and amazed by the fall season.
You would think we would be blase' but not so.
Hope you get rain

Thanks, ge. Seeing film/video footage and calenders and magazines showcasing fall in the US and Canada is lovely, but that personal touch that Dave's Garden has just isn't there. You're very fortunate to be surrounded by such reliable beauty every year. Oh and it's not only beautiful, it breaks down into fantastic compost.

Its all good

Hello Margaret, so glad to have you drop by. The compost is great, the colors are wonderful but I do not look forward to raking all those colors into piles for said compost!! LOL Hope you get your rain soon!

Thanks Pixie. We've just had the 4th driest October on record.

i am still waiting for all the leaves to come down before raking - the yard is a mess with them right now.

Thanks of all the compliments on my pics, guys!

Kathy, I may mulch those 'Ogon' sedum like you suggested and see what happens. They are rated hardy to zone 6, and I am in that zone, but sometimes things hardy for my zone are only marginally so. However, I have a peanut butter bush (Harlequin Claradendon), which is rated hardy to zone 7, and it's quite hardy here. Go figure!

Margaret, nice to hear from you! Yes, I love fall and would really miss it if I didn't live where there were nice colors. Even in AZ and NV there were nice colors, if you knew where to go. Up in the mountains was gorgeous, and in the canyons along rivers and streams.

Karen

Viburnum 'Pocomoke'.

JM Washi no o.

Tamuke yama.

Fothergilla.