| Where the garden meets the wild | |
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AUTUMN |
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| Here are a few of the many plants
we grow that are specially beautiful in autumn.
These photographs are © Pat Woodward unless otherwise noted. Please click on the images to enlarge them. Click on the plant names for more information. |
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| From left: Acer circinatum (Vine maple); Arum pictum, back-lit (photograph © A.M.D. Hoog); Cornus stolonifera var. occidentalis (Red-osier dogwood); Actaea rubra (Baneberry, white-berried form); Rhus glabra turning color in September. | |
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| From left: Mahonia nervosa (Oregon grape) in berry; Gentiana triflora var. japonica, one of many autumn-flowering blue gentians; Gentiana tibetica, a robust plant with pale, sculptural flowers and broad leaves; Plantago major 'Rubrifolia' in seed; Maianthemum racemosum (False Solomon's seal) in berry. | |
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| From left: Paeonia delavayi (sometimes called P. potaninii); Paeonia obovata; Lilium speciosum; Vaccinium membranaceum and Vaccinium ovalifolium (wild huckleberries and blueberries, photograph © Dorrie Woodward). | |
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| From left: Sambucus caerulea in berry with golden Acer circinatum; Colchicum cilicicum, one of many autumn-flowering colchicums; Asclepias speciosa, one of many Butterfly weeds, in fall gold; Aconitum japonicum, one of many autumn-flowering monkshoods. |