I took a little walk tonight with the camera to see what I could capture before the sun sets and the Patriots second pre-season football game starts. It is a bittersweet way to end the day as the garden itself is absolutely beautiful in the late summer, yet the signs of fall : cool nights, the apple and pear tree branches hanging to the ground heavy with fruit, the hydrangea blossoms fading to mauve, mean the summer is winding down and school will be starting and life will be too hectic to wander the garden at will. But there is still so much to enjoy!

The summersweet  ( this one is clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’,)is at its peak and the entire side yard , and the rest of the yard too if there is a breeze, is dreamy with its heady scent

The Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight” is in full glorious bloom , here a low bloom is resting near a  ‘Coral Drift’ rose, Sedum‘Hab Gray’ and blue lobelia

What a pretty picture the late daylily ‘Franz Hal’ makes in front of the potentilla and ‘Fat Albert’ blue spruce

This crazy looking area is actually a container planted with clematis ‘Avant Garde’ whose double blooms shed their outside petals leaving the pink pompoms( see second photo below) cypress vine  and celosia, that sits in front of some blue hosta and a large trumpet vine

This orange trumpet vine is blooming above rosa glauca whose orange hips echo its’ color

Have a great weekend everyone!