October color in the garden

 The Irish heather has been blooming for weeks.  This one is in the front garden next to the stone path to the water meter, and the new planting on the other side of it.

 The blue salvia is one of the new salvias, and other plants in the new planting at the front.  When the David statue fell over I renewed the plantings around it.  I removed a lot of Michaelmas daisies that were seeding everywhere.  I added compost to the soil of this strip from the David to the Irish heather and bordering the stone path.  Then I added a French lavender, the salvias (blue, red, pink) a couple of the milkweed plants.  The milkweed from Dave survives.  I am not sure about the others.  There are bulbs around the edges, including crocuses and dutch iris.  

 The smoke bush gets some gorgeous color, especially with the sun shining through the colored leaves.  There is a bit of bamboo in the frame for contrast.

 This is the Japanese cedar, the sumacs in the woodland.

The October colors of the woodland.  There is the Japanese cedar, sumacs, firethorn berries and the variegated holly with berries.