Celebrate Autumn in the Garden

A Massachusetts gardener shares the beauty of the changing seasons

Today ’s photos come from Barbara Owen .

I have been working in my easterly Massachusetts garden for over 50 years . The garden has develop dramatically from the big trees and one peony plant that were here when my husband and I bought our sign . Now most of our quarter - acre is garden : flowers borders , vegetables , a woods garden inspired by Garden in the Woods in Framingham , Massachusetts , and some stay area of grass that my married man enjoys mowing with an ancient rotary motor . I used to call my garden a “ teacher ’s garden , ” since I worked on it intensively through my summer holiday . Now that I ’m go to bed , summer vacation can start as presently as the nose candy thaw and continue until the ground freezes in the gloaming . My garden is definitely my happy shoes .

For this I looked for fall photos , which was a howling reason for me to review several years of September , October , and November garden photos . They are mostly close - ups , since I like to focus on trope that are diminished enough or ordinary enough that we might blank out to take notice of the sweetheart around us .

A birdbath with blossoming sedum ( Sedum spectabile , Zones 3–9 ) and ornamental Mary Jane . ( The variegated grass is probablyMiscanthus sinensis‘Variegata’,Zones 6–9 . )

The marrow of fall : an abundant harvest from the veggie garden .

Honeybees on ‘ Stardust ’ sedum ( Sedum spectabile‘Stardust ’ , Zones 3–9 )

A humblebee on reddahlia

A crowned head butterfly on a old maid ( Zinnia elegans , annual ) . Monarchs want lots of nectar to fuel their long flight to Mexico each drop , so plants like these zinnia that keep flowering into fall are a cracking way to help them on their way .

Another sovereign feed on a zinnia flush

freeze on reddish salvia ( Salvia splendens , Zones 10–11 or as annual ) . First frost spell the end for many tender perennials and annuals , but it can do so with such knockout .

A frostedzinnia

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