we have been very lucky weather wise not to have suffered a hard frost…don’t worry it is coming , and soon, but for now the garden just keeps carrying on. I have read the phrase “pockets of beauty” ad nauseam for some reason these past few weeks in reference to what is left to see our gardens…BAH! …Fall is glorious with color!
there are so very many late blooming plants that can bring us from the end of the summer all the way into December here in New England and they should be a part of every garden in a place where we have snow cover for months. Paired with the turning foliage of peonies,geraniums, many shrubs and of course our deciduous trees ,the garden is so vibrant now , add in the low light and great weather and it is paradise! 
there are late season mums and asters
pink centerpiece mum
mums and callicarpa
rose blush mum
ater latifolius ‘lady in black’
sedum and mellow moon mum
loads of shrubs and trees that have beautiful berries and fruit
Mrs. robinson crab apple
calicarpa
winterberry holly
winter gold holly
rose hips and reblooming roses
drift rose ‘sweet’
seafoam rose
rugosa rose hips
sedums and hydrangeas
sedum octoberdapne
endless summer hydrangea
long and late season annuals, many of which you can see below in the vases I put together for a presentation today
pink petunias
nasturtiums
daucus carrota
nasturtiums
cosmos
cosmos
cosmos picotee
the late blooming montauk daisy, gentian and the long blooming garden phloxes
nora leigh phlox
gentian andrewsii
montauk daisy
fall anenomes
fall anemone
apples and pears on the trees and on the ground
pears
persicaria and alluim thungbergii ‘ozawa’ ( with sedum and gentians)
persicara ‘firetail’
allium ozawa and sedun
and then there are those plants like geranium ‘rozanne’, verbenna ‘annie’ and every agastache on the market, as well as the honeysuckle ‘major wheeler’ that bloom for such a long time that I can almost ( but not quite yet) say i am sick of them!
major wheeler honeysuckle
Still yet to come are a half dozen more perennial mums that are still in bud and won’t be harmed by frost at alll!
sheffield mum
below is a look at everything I cut today for a presentation on shrubs …the flowers are just a bonus in addition to the beauty of the branches that are the base of the arrangements
.The last one was made just for me though ( i really really really like pink)
twist and shout hydrangea, pink cnterpiece mums, dahilas, cosmos, symphoricarpos coral berries,
wintergold holly, summersweet leaves, matchstick mums, zinnias and nasturtiums
gallardias, zinniasm chamaecyparis, euonymous leaves, ruby mound mums, wieglia foliage, and the awesome foliage of lilac’Miss kim’
wintergold holly calicarpa berries, montauk daisy, peach centerpiece mum. peony and red shield hibiscus leaves
How does your late garden look? I’ll bet there is more color to it than you other people think!
head on over to see what is going on elsewhere and for tons of inspiration at May dreams gardens