Best fall color - more trees and shrubs

Although there are still golfers playing at the course across the road from us, Toby and I have been able to start having morning walks there. If we get there early enough, we done before there's any danger of balls hitting us. The course has some magnificant trees, such as the oak above.

The sugar maples have colored beautifully this year
Our shrub border with eastern redbud,
double-file viburnum and cotoneaster
Our magnificant little black gum tree (Nyssa sylvatica)
© Yvonne Cunnington, Country Gardener

Fall color - the season's star trees and shrubs

It's been a fantastic autumn for great foliage color. Here are some favorites from my garden this season. They all happen to be North American natives.

Pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)
Serviceberry (Amlanchier canadensis)
The serviceberry leaves were more intensely colored this fall than I've ever seen them before.

Dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii)
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
© Yvonne Cunnington, Country Gardener