Fall garden scenes

Dahlia Rothsay Reveller (now blackened by frost) with Brazilian Blue Sage and Pennisetum Hameln.

A view of the back part of the big perennial bed.

These are absolutely GORGEOUS gardens/pics! More, more, more...

Thanks Stono!

Sweetbay- I think it's a maple.

I'm trying to get past the learning curve in Photoshop w/o DH's help. Let's see if this is a closer image of the tree.

Editing to add- I'll try again later,lol.

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That's a red maple.

Sir Robert Lipton in foreground, with Aromatic Aster, Clotilde Soupert, and Old Blush. The brown twigs on the right are spent Phlox paniculata blooms.

Climbing Old Blush blooms until very late in the year.

Pineapple Sage, Muhly filipes, Chrys. "Venus", fall-flowering Cosmos, and Queen of Siam Basil by the wheelbarrow.

You have a beautiful garden, Sweetbay.

Thank you. :) I still have a lot of work though.

Another view through the trellis.

Oh, how beautiful! And look at that Callicarpa! Wow! I'm overusing exclamation points here, but you deserve it!

Callicarpa dichotoma has lost its leaves but the berries are holding on.

My Forsythia has nice fall color this year.

The Callicarpa looks really good with the Miscanthus, and that Forsythia has beautiful color. Mine is just green.

Here's a wide view of Miss Bessie's Aster, and part of the garden.

Seedheads of Joe Pye Weed, with Miss Bessie's Aster and roses in the background.

Miss Bessie's Aster with Rose Foxi Pavement to the left and Muhlenbergia filipes to the right.

Sweet B
What is that spray of purple/blue to the far right ? Is that Muhlenbergia filipes? Is it a grass?

Yes, that's Muhlenbergia filipes, an evergreen grass.

its beautiful
and you're in Smithfield, so I know I can grow it. I have a small area in back that I want to fill in with grasses. I saw a grass today....it was unbelievable in the sun. Thick --like a bottlebrush and bright bright yellow/gold. Any idea of its name?

Sweetbay-Miss Bessie's is beautiful in full bloom. Not much going on here now. The Buddleia that I got from you is the showiest thing in bloom now other than the grasses.

My new orange shrimp plant fits the season well.

First flower on Sasanqua 'Leslie Ann'.

Firebush, Hamalea patens in a neighborhood butterfly garden.

A local and very colorful farm.

No flowers but such a pretty sky beyond the Hunting Island Lighthouse today.

missingrosie, the bottlebrush grass sounds like a Pennisetum. Does it look like this? http://www.nichegardens.com/catalog/item.php?id=1724

Shari Miss Bessie's Aster is great but she's leggy. She kind of leans every which way. lol

Beautiful pictures ardesia. I especially like the camellia.

Sweet B - no doesn't look like that. It doesn't have the think green blades coming up. If you took the shape of the bottle brush flower --- fattened it up and lengthened it.... it starts from the place it emerges from the ground ---and continues right on to the tip. Then painted it bright bright yellow/gold. That would be it. I am going to try to get a photo tomorrow on the way to work. Hope the sun is up and bright. Its shape is like your Muhlenbergia filipes but thicker 'brush' and of course the color is different.