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October is here and , in certain parts of the U.S. , the Night become nerveless and the sunlight , being lower in the sky , throws a pictorial public eye on Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and shrubs as they change into their cloak of color . The years spark with fall sun and leaves , berries , cabbages , mommy , and autumn pumpkin capture our attention . We delight in this fleeting moment , knowing that fall is , as William Cullen Bryant draw , " the twelvemonth ’s last loveliest grin . "
( pic by : Jan Johnsen . )
The spell of autumn encourages an inbound attitude which has inspired many writer , poet and creative person over the years to rejoice in its colorful display and quiet minute . In the follow pic , I offer melodic theme for an alluring autumn garden and have pair it with an appropriate seasonal quote . This match celebrates the fall in the sweetest of ways , just like Malus pumila cyder and Ceylon cinnamon tree .
" There is a concord in autumn , and a luster in its sky … " — Percy Bysshe Shelley ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
Have a bench ? allow a favorable scarer take a seat . This one is not stuffed with straw but it evokes the same touch sensation . substitute your summer flowers with a thick red chrysanthemum as shown here . The line of the light - colored plantation owner , cerise heyday , and morose evergreen plant background make a outstanding exhibit . The travelling bag of tulip electric-light bulb on the judiciary is temporary — they are to be planted for next give ’s eye - catching display .
" Delicious fall ! My very soul is wedded to it …. " — George Eliot ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
Anemonexhybrida(Japanese anemones ) , known as windflower , are the stars of a downfall bloom garden . These Asian natives are perennials that bear turgid , single or twofold , cupful - shape blossoms featuring slick petals and a gold central button . The pink ' Queen Charlotte ' has prime on 3 - to-4 - pes - tall stalk in mid fall . Fall - bloom windflowers are hardy in zone 5 through 9 and can tot up color to your garden from late summer to tardy fall . They flourish in full sun to part shade .
" I can not abide to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house . So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air . " — Nathaniel Hawthorne ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
' Limelight ' hydrangeais an outstanding , intrepid , and carefree shrub that continues to draw in attention all the way into descent . Its pea green - to - lime bloom appear in early to summer solstice and get over the 6 - to-8 - foot - improbable shrub . As they maturate , the prominent , 8 - column inch - long flowers darken to all shades of garden pink , and in the gloam turn a ample rosy-cheeked hue . When the blossoms fade , ' Limelight ' foliage turns a burnished red . Grow them in Zones 4 through 8 , in Sunday to light tint .
“ I ’m so beaming I live in a world where there are Oct . ” — L.M. Montgomery ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
Place planters filled with varying colors of mums on step for a warm , ask for welcome . Add variegated , green and white , trailing ivy and place small pumpkins in the pots for a seasonal look . The blue planters point act as colorful idiom . Note the paries light set into the stone rampart in this photograph . In the evening , these louvered visible radiation illuminate the steps and highlight the flowers to create a lovely effect .
" Autumn is the mellower time of year , and what we lose in flush we more than gain in yield . " — Samuel Butler ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
The little ornamental Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , Cornus chinensisvar . Kousa(kousa dogwood ) , is eff for its early summertime show of abundant lily-white flowers . But in the crepuscle it sports red , succulent fruit that resemble raspberries ( they are not deliberate edible ) . The fall presentation of these berries ( see moreberry - support plants ) and the regal and scarlet fall leave of absence make the kousa dogwood a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to consider for the fall garden . It has a beautiful bod with horizontal branching . It grows in partial shade to full sun and grows to a height of 15 to 25 feet . It is hardy in Zones 5 through 8 .
" After the leave have flow , we return to a plain sense of thing . It is as if we had follow to an end of the imagination , inanimate in an torpid savoir . " — Wallace Stevens ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
In a twilight planter you may plant an evergreen boxwood and circumvent it with seasonal items . Although you may tie in pansy flower with spring , they are also used to tot colouration in passel and beds in fall . Here , small ornamental gourd and yellow pansies are combined with the dark fleeceable leave and red berries of theGaultheria procumbens(wintergreen plant ) . The leaf of pyrola has a substantial minty fragrance when crushed , and the reddish fruits are redolent .
“ There is no time of year when such pleasant and sunny speckle may be lighted on , and produce so pleasant an effect on the belief , as now in October . " — Nathaniel Hawthorne ( Photo by : Jan Johnsen . )
A bush border featuring the deciduousSpiraea japonica‘Goldmound ’ ( Nipponese spirea ) is dazzle in the declension . In spring the foliage on this 2 - to-3 - groundwork - magniloquent shrub is a vivacious jaundiced , and in early summer cluster of pink flowers seem . The color of the leave-taking cool to a yellow green in summer and in the fall they turn a rich halcyon yellow as show here . It is a great colour addition to any border , and you could even bestow it to a planter . It grows well in zones 4 through 8 .
Jan Johnsen is a landscape designer ( Johnsen Landscapes & Pools ) , blogger ( Serenity in the Garden ) and author .
Books by Jan Johnsen
Gardentopia
Heaven is a Garden
The Spirit of Stone
