Fall in May’s garden on Vancouver Island

Happy Monday , everyone ! Today ’s photo are from one of our favourite GPODers , May Kald ( GrannyMay ) ! We get a pre - fall post from her a small while ago ( refresh your memoryHERE ) , and today she ’s back with a little more . She says,“Here are some fall thought of my garden to divvy up . I was go for for more people of color before posting again , but so far this free fall has been very warm and I ’m certainly not expire to sound off about that ! Lots of perennials and some of the roses are still pretending it is summer , while those plants that need cold weather condition to colour up are still waiting for their cues to cock their stuff . Meanwhile , lots of things in the garden do look good , the Anna ’s hummingbird are combat over the sugar water in their feeders , and Lacey keeps meddlesome chasing the squirrels as they attempt to bury fruitcake and seeds everywhere . All of these photos are from October 4 to the 20 . The first pic is the blush wine ' Flower Carpet Pink ' that climb up the fencing at the very front of my driveway . It perfectly get laid this weather condition and is still blossom now , while behind it is the burning bush ( Euonymus elatus ) , which normally steal the show with its flaming red leave of absence . The burning bush did pay off itself a twosome of weeks later , but even now has not reached its full gloriole . If we do get some brilliant colours later , I can always send more photos!“Please do , May ! Yours is one of the most beautiful autumn gardens I ’ve ever see . Goregous !

SEND ME PICS OF YOUR GARDEN!Email me at[email protected ] . Thanks ! – Michelle

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Rose ‘Flower Carpet Pink’ and burning bush (Euonymus alatus) on Oct 4.

Rose ‘Flower Carpet Pink’ and burning bush (Euonymus alatus) on Oct 20. Also a yucca, rhododendrons, and climbing roses in the background.

A blue Hydrangea macrophylla, most of the flowers have turned pinky/brown but the leaves are still mainly green, edged with a darker band.

Part of a front border – central is a white Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Incrediball’, some lower flower clusters are white, the upper ones went brown. This was its first year here and I was hoping it would go pink in the fall like the other white hydrangeas I have. But the summer drought may have caused the brown. The rhododendrons around it weren’t happy to be dry either.

The same part of the border from the opposite side – in the centre is a Berberis thunbergii ‘Rose Glow’. There is a chestnut tree and a dogwood in the background, both small and large-leaved rhododendrons, heathers, butterfly bush, and cotoneasters around.

The dogwood has yet to show much leaf colour, being mostly green. Still, it looks lovely beside Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’

This is a small Stewartia pseudocamellia tree, tucked into an impossibly tiny spot, because I always wanted one. Maybe one day I’ll find a better home for it.

A view towards my house from the road end of the driveway. I usually don’t take this photo because the long wide gravel driveway dominates the scene. Unable to change the driveway, I have encouraged grass, moss and anything else that is green, to grow on the gravel to minimize the barren expanse of grey.

To the right of the driveway, under the birch clump is a new flowerbed that should look great next fall. It has lots of tall grasses and late-blooming perennials such as Joe Pye weed, echinacea, rudbeckia, and some heathers and other shrubs.

This is the driveway side of my rock-garden, the stairs go to the front of the house. The colourful maple is one that I started 22 years ago from maple keys that I picked up in the Japanese garden in Butchart Gardens. I had no idea what sort of maple it might grow up to be and didn’t care as all the maples in that area were lovely. I’m very happy with it, though it might eventually grow too large for its spot.

Lacey surveys her domain from the front porch. The front walk is getting covered (again!!) by heathers, hebes, boxwood, Hakone grass, lithodora, creeping phlox, and even weeds. At the back, the big red maple is still mostly green, the smaller unknown Japanese maple is on the right.

A male Anna’s hummingbird sits on the red maple guarding the hummingbird feeder. He does not like to share. The Rufous hummingbirds have left to fly south, so he no longer has to be as vigilant.