Autumn color

Annuals continue to flower with enthusiasm in mid-October. Salvia farinacea, pentas and impatiens make a hot combination along the stone path to the front door.

Perennials are still coming into bloom. Pineapple sage comes back every year. Tall and wide and bright red, it is an awesome sight near the birdhouse sculpture.

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Shrubs offer colorful berries to birds during fall migration. Viburnum nudem is sometimes called Possum haw. Its fruit is pink and blue in the same cluster.

Trees are beginning to turn. This dogwood planted itself in a dry spot near the front of the house and looks happiest in fall.

Even fungi show their colors. These orange beauties are the size of dinner plates. They were discovered near an old stump beside the buttonbush.

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