Would love to see your fall colors!.
Vivian

And I am experiencing similarly i.e. my roses have looked so good this September. The cooler temperatures and some rain has done them so much good.

Driving by Huntsville, Ontario, last Friday.
About a week before the colours are at their peak there.

I wasn't the driver!

Rouge 21, That Lilac is so nice and it has been on my wish list for a couple years but never got the courage to do it due to some of online reviews about the reblooms not really good. But even with short re-blooms, it is still very nice. I miss the fragrant smell of the Lilac in the spring. I only have the regular ones so 2-3 weeks bloom. I also start to see them in Home Depot this spring so make it easier to get it next year. Now my wish list is getting longer.....

Wagonwheel, What is that yellow flower? Is it black eyed susan? Tiger Eye sumac, I do not have much knowledge of, but the color is so beautiful in the summer and fall. So it is on my research list.

Gazania, Your garden is so nicely structued, height, texture, and color. Soon that burning bush will be in its full glory.

Not to change the subject, here are some other kind of fall color (not the best picture, taken last night in the dark):

Endless Summer Hydrangea and Heachera Obsidian

And the good and old mums. I will have to post a correction in another thread where I claim that my yellow mums will eventually be yellow again even if they started with maroon colored buds. This has been the case for the last 4 years, until this year. One of the mums never changed back to yellow. Here they are. again, taken at night,

Vivian, here is the front side of that island bed, taken 3 days before the above pic.

And now from the other end

Gazania, Thanks for the pictures. In our Michigan house, we lost our big Ash tree in the front yard this year. I am planning an island. Your pictures gave me some very good ideas (hope they are not copy righted::). Since we spend most of time in Chicago area, so I need a garden that is beautiful but relatively care free. And I may just have found the right plan. Thanks for sharing. The catmints and Sedum go very nicely with the ground cover. What is the name of the dark tall tree? Do you need to trim it to contain the size? Our island is smaller. The dark color would go very nicely with the Tiger Eye Sumac.

Wagonwheel, Thanks for the information. Black eyed susan adds so much life and color to the garden. I have a few of them as well (and the shorter version). Actually I started with one plant 7 years ago, and let it grow, now I have several of them.

Sunny, Trees here started to show fall color here in Midwest as well. Now I do not even complain getting stuck in the traffic as this gives me time to enjoy the various fall colors along the parkway.

Vivian

Now about the ground cover. It is Geranium 'Biokovo'. I love this plant. Very clean attractive foliage. It is evergreen, slowly expands to fill in around other plants without choking. The bloom is pretty, but short lived in late spring, but the leaves are a nice backdrop for everything else in the bed. I have both the white and pink variety. Does full sun or part shade equally well. Great plant!

First year "Tie Dye" clematis giving some blooms in October (roses in the background):

"Corydalis" Lutea bordered by annual begonias:

"Quick Fire" Hydrangea with a few "Polish Spirit" clematis flowers in the background (QF has been covered in blooms since June...it is a grreat hydrangea in my opinion):

I know "Max Frei" is a very traditional (boring?) hardy geranium but I love it. It has profuse blooms in the spring, a very compact tidy habit all summer and gives some more blooms in October.

And finally a plant I keep raving about and have posted pics of it too many time on GW but it is an outstanding fall flowering plant with wonderful coloured foliage. Here is a picture from today of "Golden Arrow" persicaria:

Inspires me to try again with colchicum.

Not many things blooming here anymore - mostly roses and hydrangeas with a few asters and geraniums thrown in there.

The ES hydrangea is continuously confused on what color it should be due to being planted in alkaline soil under a pine tree.

But it is fall and colour!

Is the pink/red one a Knautia? If so, which?
Used to use the species, Knautia macedonica, but if it liked the location, it seeded like crazy.

For this first year having 2 LGS I have had no black spot or any other foliage issue as I often did with G.

Maybe this was a fluke but LGS began flowering (much) earlier than I have experienced with G.

I am taking it at face value that LGS will not spread nor grow as tall as G (that is how it is advertised).