I am Alice from Sweaburg, Ontario, Canada, and I wanted to share with you how blessed we have been this year with great fall weather and gorgeous fall colors.
My sister has a big maple like this on each side of her house.
The neighbor’s gorgeous sugar maple (Acer saccharum, Zones 3–8) has had its beautiful colors for a while already.
Here’s our front yard. We have had some frost, but the flowers are hanging in there, and the red grasses are still beautiful red.
Everything in the front yard is putting on its best autumn colors.
This orange mum (Chrysanthemum hybrid) is a rescue. People throw them out, and I sometimes take some home from the city depot and plant them. The odd one survives, like this one.
The first appearance of the many leaves we will get, but cleaning them all up is something to do outside now that lots of other things have been canceled because of COVID.
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Oh, my, goodness! Just beautiful!!!
Spectacular!
Hi Alice. Fellow Canadian here. Those photos are just gorgeous!! I love how your front yard is so rich in various colours, sizes of plants, and textures. I wish it could be fall / autumn all year long :)
Lovely front garden, Alice. I liked the mum rescue story, too. What a success!
Am trying to work with spindly butterfly bush I plucked from the sale rack.
Thanks for your comments. That's is one thing i want to get. A butterfly bush.
One of the prettiest gardens in autumn ever!
Love the orange "rescue" mum next to the purple flowers.
And to think someone tossed it out when it has so much to offer if someone would just plant it like you did!
Nice landscaped garden in front of the house!
Stunning...thanks for sharing. I am planting a sugar maple next week. Had to leave a very mature one in my old garden. Your picture has made me glad I am planting one albeit much smaller!
I love how you have terraced your hilly front lawn. Less lawn care and more beauty!
My husband does the lawn with the riding mower. To scary for me on those Hills.
Stunning garden! I'm also a plant rescuer - back when we lived in NJ, a neighbor had thrown away a little blue spruce after Christmas. I picked it up from the curb and planted it down by the small creek and pond in our backyard. When we moved away 4 years later, it was about 6 feet tall and beautiful! Rescue pets and plants!
Thank you for your comments. Yours is a wonderful story. Whenever we bring away leaves etc. to the city yard at this time of year, I am also checking if there is nice stuff for Christmas arrangements. The gloves and pruners are in the van.
Love the plant rescue story! And your sugar maples- such a beautiful tree. Thanks for sharing your garden.
thanks For your comments. The sugar maple are the neighbours. One one the left. One on the right. We have red maples . They were all there when we moved in 16 years ago.
Somehow. my post didn't get posted the other day.
I just wanted to say that I love the landscaping of your front yard. The curvy bottom bed echoing the upper bed near the entrance with all that lovely lawn between is just beautiful.
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