Fall Color

Summer may be over, but the sidewalk garden is still ticking along.

The asters which have looked plain all year are suddenly showing their delicate little flowers.

A couple of the rose bushes are still putting out new buds that are so intensely colorful that my phone’s camera doesn’t really know what to do with them.

The tomato plants are dying back, but throwing the last of their energy into ripening just a few more fruits.

And the giant sunflower has decided to go out with a bang.

American Asters

This six-foot-tall mini-thicket of late-blooming asters is providing another lovely spot of color in our garden despite the recent cold snap — I almost cut them back in November and I’m so glad I waited!

I don’t know which variety of asters this is, but I have my fingers crossed that it’s one of the rhizomatous perennial species and will return again next year.