The Virginia creeper has turned its godawful ratty brown now and it's what we see from the patio and from inside the house. It goes suddenly and early every year, but this year's hot dry summer stressed it with powdery mildew all over. I'll ignore it. I have to.
The crabapple did not color this fall, it's just dropping its leaves.
The serviceberry, however, is starting to color up nicely and even has a delicate glow to its changing leaves. A nice sight right out the kitchen door.
I'm pleased with how it transplanted last winter. It seems to be doing well and I can see a day in the far future when it will shade the kitchen door from the bright morning sun in summer and we won't have to keep the blinds shut tight in the mornings.
The cottonwood and the aspens aren't really turning yellow very much. But the redbud is. It's starting to turn a nice lemon yellow.
It tilts out away from the garage. Redbuds naturally lean out from the forest's edge and look graceful in the transition from shaded woods to open sunlight, but as a single specimen in a tight yard, it looks unbalanced.
But I am happy it is finally healthy enough and growing, with a nice leader after all these years.
We got one night in the 20s recently and the maple's leaves look brown at the edges. So there may not be much red this year.
The plumbagos are a nice red though.
And this tiny Coral Reef sedum, tucked in among the moss rocks in the circle garden is a sweet little pop of red to brighten things at ground level.
It's not much of a fall for color this year. It was so hot for so long and very, very dry until we got a year's worth of rain in the last half of September.
The trees and plants are confused.