Tangled Branches: Cultivated

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Fall Foliage

This holly tree is at the edge of the deck
I found a few feeble flowers for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, but the best feature of the garden this week was the fall foliage. The backyard in northern Virginia is wooded. There used to be a small strip of lawn between the house and the woods, but that was covered over by the new deck this spring. Now, from the back of the house you get the feeling that you're in the woods - a very different effect.

Some views from the deck, from left to right across the lot.
Pink-coral leaves of black haw viburnum Viburnum in context
beneath oaks, next to dogwood
Multicolored leaves of arrowwood viburnum Winterberry holly and epimedium
Winterberry holly with American holly in front This oak tree caps the winterberry hollies
'Sango Kaku' Japanese maple
is behind the winterberry hollies The cyclamen foliage will be with us all winter
'Glowing Embers' Japanese maple
behind 'Mildred Mae' azalea This scarlet oak was a small tree 20 years ago

All too soon, the view from the deck will be of my neighbors' swingsets, shed, compost bin, and woodpile with blue tarp, but right now the view is as good as it gets all year.

Labels: autumn, foliage, seasons

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Beginning of Autumn?

Well, gosh, I was going to write a post about August being the beginning of autumn, but I decided to check my archives before doing it. Good thing, too, because I was going to write very nearly the same thing I wrote a year ago. Everything I wrote then applies equally well today, except this time I have a good picture of a clearwing moth.

In that picture, it just looks like a bug, but when you see one of these hovering in front of a flower, you could swear you're looking at a tiny hummingbird.

Also, to update last year's post just a bit, Wikipedia now has a page showing the exact time of the traditional beginning of autumn. Going over to time.gov, I see that we are already 2 hours into autumn as I write this. Then why is it so darned hot?

Labels: autumn, insects, moths, seasons

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Tangled Branches: Cultivated

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Fall Foliage

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Beginning of Autumn?


Pink-coral leaves of black haw viburnum	Viburnum in context beneath oaks, next to dogwood

Multicolored leaves of arrowwood viburnum	Winterberry holly and epimedium

Winterberry holly with American holly in front	This oak tree caps the winterberry hollies

'Sango Kaku' Japanese maple is behind the winterberry hollies	The cyclamen foliage will be with us all winter

'Glowing Embers' Japanese maple behind 'Mildred Mae' azalea	This scarlet oak was a small tree 20 years ago