This is only my 2nd year, the first year it didn't even bloom that much. I had it in shade, and find it really prefers full sun. I have plans to move it again, next to a Wine and Roses weigela, as I have a big gap in that border.

I can post pic tomorrow if you want. I was surprised that it had any fall color at all, nice surprise for a change, LOL.

Mine got a very very dark burgandy.

Oh...did you have a early hard freeze this year? Fall colors are off on tons of plants this year in my area.

My ginkgo was orangy brownish yellow (typically buttery yellow). My celebration maple is orangish yellow (typically bright red). My autumn blaze pear is orangish red (typically dark red/purple)

And "sometimes a dark reddish purple". So maybe my fall color is more atypical? Or typical for heavy slightly alkaline soil?

Elsewhere in the yard, my Limelight Hydrangea has some red/burgundy leaves and the Tardiva Hydrangea's are just going straight to yellow and dropping off.

I have neutral/alkaline at 6.8 and clay soil.

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I was thinking more like the apricot in the link below.

Here's a shot of mine.

Whaas~We have had frost, but not a hard freeze, the ground is not frozen here yet.

I grew a bunch of H.paniculata from seed I collected from several Pink Diamond plants and 50 of those are now planted in a continuous bed in a local arboretum where I volunteer. None of those 50 have the coloration of the QF I posted so I'm lost for words as to it's coloration. Pretty nice though I agree.