Flowers and foliage of the season
We ’re visiting Colleen ’s garden today to love the beauties of dip .
I ’ve been garden for more than 30 year in the Hudson Valley of New York State . I treasure all thing gardening but of late am lovingtexture , leafage , natives , shade gardening , andcontainer horticulture .
If you need to see more , check outColleen ’s garden on Instagram .
Sourwood(Oxydendrumarboreum , Zones 5–9 ) is a smallnative treethat has beautiful sprays of white flower in the spring and brilliant leaf color in the fall .
The foliage of thisoakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangeaquercifolia , Zones 5–9 ) is just begin to flush red ink for the fall .
Close - up of oakleaf hydrangea leaf beginning to color in up . The flowers of this shrub are beautiful , but they might just be upstaged by the big , spectacular foliage .
A admixture of hardy sedum — yellow - dark-green ‘ Angelina’(Sedumrupestre‘Angelina ’ , Zones 3–9 ) and a dark red – leave selection ofSedumspurium(Zones 3–9 ) .
This good - old ‘ fall Joy’sedum(Hylotelephiumspectabile‘Autumn Joy ’ , Zones 3–9 ) is last up to its name with big mass ofpink flowersat the closing of the maturate season .
Sometimes called fall crocuses , Colchicumlook alike to truecrocusesbut differ in many ways , most notably for being extremely toxic , which is slap-up if you have trouble with squirrel or voles eating your bulbs . The flowers on genus Colchicum come up in the fall without the farewell , and then the leaves come up in the bound .
Close - up of the colchicum blossom , which await to be the speciesColchicumspeciosum(Zones 5–8 )
Dahlias(Dahliavariabilis , Zones 8–10 or as untoughened bulbs ) bloom much of the summer but always top out with the shorter days and cooler weather of fall .
An aster , probably a selection or hybrid ofNew England aster(Symphyotrichumnovae – angliae , Zones 3–8 ) , bring beautiful imperial blooms to the evenfall , much to the joy of a Apis mellifera .
Virginia creeper ( Parthenocissusquinquefolia , Zones 3–9 ) is a vigorous aboriginal vine that loves to scramble up fences or trees , and turns brilliant shades of red in the fall .
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