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

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Tangled Branches: Cultivated

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Fall Foliage


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