There can never be an excuse for a dormant garden. Even in the coldest months there will be some plants that venture out to cheer the winter cold.
As the summer days cool down and summer flowers fade another wave of colour invades the garden.
1. Autumn colours glow as the leaves of the Japanese maples turn to fiery red, crimson and gold. The scarlet pistacia, the golden liquid amber, the yellow ginko tree, in colder areas the pin oak will turn a brilliant scarlet and the orange leaves of the crepe myrtles make a last splash of colour in defiance of the winter to come.
2. Gordonias litter the ground with their huge white, yellow centred flowers, as they mingle with the pink camellia sasanquas blooms.
3. Early azaleas spot flower and the brilliant blue skybush, ceratostigma, fill the shrubbery with colour. ...
