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| Tagetes 'Villandry', a French Marigold that makes a plant big and loose enough for us. Its relatively long stems make it good for cut flowers. We pick a lot as frost threatens. |
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| Silky, silvery seedheads of Turkeyfoot, Andropogon gerardii |
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| Switchrgrass, Panicum virgatum, in the west meadow |
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| Common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca |
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| Hayscented Fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, in autumn color under Gray Birches at the edge of the west meadow |
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| Sunrise lights and colors the grasses of the west meadow. |
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| From a studio window |
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| Looking across the big island bed from the entry courtyard. A Bluestar, Amsonia tabernaemonta, has spread under the rock wall into the gravel of the courtyard; it is starting its good autumn foliage color. |
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| Black chairs in the entry courtyard |
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| This bed separates the entry courtyard from our driveway |
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| Spiraea betulifolia 'Tor' has given so-so creamy white flowers in spring, but its autumn foliage color can be spectacular. |
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| An ornamental oregano, Origanum 'Rotkugel' and the scarlet foliage of Spiraea betulifolia 'Tor' |
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| Our house volunteer, self-sowing nicotianas have Nancy Ondra's 'Green Mix' and the pink and white species Nicotiana mutabilis, in their background. |
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| Nicotianas with a white Japanese Anemone, Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson' (and Verbena bonariensis) in the fenced garden |
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| A monkshood we bought as Aconitum fischeri, apparently an invalid name-- but possibly useful to gardeners for indicating a relatively short form of A. carmichaelii |
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| In this warm autumn our favorite home-grown seedling daylily (likely a cross between Hemerocallis 'Autumn King' and H.'Autumn Minaret') has just kept opening good flowers. When nights are too cold, daylily flowers do not open well. |
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| We love the way its tall stems float this daylily's flowers high above its own foliage and surrounding plants. |
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| Cuphea cyanea on the back deck |
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| The hummingbirds who sipped its nectar left in September, but with mild weather the plant blooms on and on. |
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| It will be worth bringing the not-quite-too-large pot indoors on freezing nights-- but we haven't had those yet. |
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| A Japanese Anemone, Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson'. The flowers last if the cut stem ends are sealed by dipping in very hot water. |
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| Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson' in the fenced garden |
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| One of our resident strain of nicotiana hybrids |
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| Chrysanthemum 'Hillside Sheffield Pink' |
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| Tagetes 'Villandry', a French Marigold with a loose enough growth habit to be at home with us, combines here with Coreopsis 'Full Moon'-- the marigold is a even a little taller than the coreopsis. |
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| Nicotiana hybrids, this plant resembling its 'Nancy Ondra's Green Mix' ancestors |
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| Asclepia tuberosa, Butterfly Weed |
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| Asclepias tuberosa with Symphyotrichum oblongifolium, Aromatic Aster |
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| Chrysanthemum 'Hillside Sheffield Pink' |
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| Looking across the big island bed and the circle terrace; but the big show is in the colors of the native woodland beyond. |
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| The curves of the circle terrace echo the mound of Phudd Hill in the distance |
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| Amsonia tabernaemontana foliage is turning yellow, but even the russet-pink dried flowerheads of hydrangeas behind it look gold in this early morning light |
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| Frost at last, here on mullein leaves |
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| Frost on Stachys byzantina 'Big Ears': silver on silver, with red gold from a stem of Rosa 'Corylus' |
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| A first-year mullein rosette, silvered by the frost |
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| Seedheads of Downy Sunflower, Helianthus mollis, with the bright colored stems of a Red Twig Dogwood cultivar, Cornus sericea 'Cardinal' |
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| Harvest time: Jack, back from a morning run with wild blueberry foliage |
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| Actaea pachypoda, Doll's Eyes or White Baneberry |
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| Crisp and changing autumn light: the fenced garden in sunshine, the hill across the valley in shadow |
