Hydrangea Limelight Vanilla Strawberry Spirea

Gardening is basically at an end for most of us. We did receive a tremendous amount of rain for a couple weeks there and I did manage to get some things transplanted and a few new shrubs planted. I am changing over to more and more shrubs and feel that is mainly what I will have at some point, other than my Hostas, Daylilies, Sedum, and Mums that I have to cut back, which is still too much. Getting to hard to deal with all of that in the fall. Will of course keep my perennials like Heuchera and Lavender that are evergreen here.

Hydrangea Limelight at the beginning of October. This is for those to see the amount of pink I am getting on my Limelight. I did notice this year on Limelight and Vanilla Strawberry that as it starts cooling off the blooms start turning pink. People in a colder zone may get more pink than I do. Limelight has added just a tad more pink since these photos.

Hydrangea Vanilla Strawberry keeps getting pinker. With only 3 blooms on my small one, I still have them in various stages of color so I can believe the photos I saw before purchasing were accurate and expect a lot more out of it as it matures. Vanilla Strawberry has pinked even more since these photos.

Spirea Magic Carpet. A yellow shrub that adds some red highlights in the fall.

Sedum Mr Goodbud blooms. The pink on this keeps deepening also as the weather gets cooler and cooler. I notice on this one that the pink is almost red compared to Autumn Joy and has a red tinge to it's stems. This is the second summer in my gardens and so far has stayed compact and erect as they claim, like Autumn Joy. We'll see what happens next year when I will consider it totally mature.

Times are incredibly busy for me and I don't have much time for blogging right now. Will try to catch up when things improve with my time.