November 1st in the Garden

 Leaves falling on the rockeries need to be cleaned up often.  This little rockery in the back garden needs an addition of a bit of compost and more pea gravel mulch.

 There is an interesting combination of Autumn colors in the perennials in this rectangle bed near the driveway in the front boulevard garden.

 The leaves from of the sweet gum tree in the front garden make a colorful carpet over the grass.  As at November 1st the leaves are just beginning to fall.

 This is a photo taken from just across the street of the front garden.
There is the spirea bush in the foreground, then the green of the cedar hedge with the colorful sweet gum tree.  The leaves of this tree are enclosed by the hedging and get heat off the house and so the leaves at the bottom remain green/yellow.  

The sweet gum tree holds it colorful leaves for quite a long time.  The view from the windows at the front of the house are a treat.  This is November 17th and we still have the glorious show in the front garden.