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of autumn colour. If you can spare a moment from harvesting pumpkins, admiring dahlias and cutting things back then this is a good time to think of your last garden visits of the season. Get out there and see some leaves.The great places for autumn visits

and sunshine how could I resist writing about leaves?We are not really up to the New England standard (we are a bit short of red sugar maples) but there is still enough variation in leaf colour to excite. Aside from the general appearance of autumn - low

After the recent soft mists and bright days I'm going to formally declare that autumn is with us. Not picture book autumn, with flaring red leaves and dustings of frost, but a sort of pubescent autumn. This is a lovely time of year - everything

.)Malus 'Red Sentinel': one of the finest crab apples with sensational autumn colour and jewelled clusters of small red apples that cling on long after the leaves have fallen. The blossom is a fine pinky reddy white in spring.Acer davidii, the snake bark maple

I know that you're beset by articles about autumn leaves at this time of year (heaven knows, I'm responsible for more than my fair share), and the recent cold snap has accelerated the end of what the Americans call "leaf peeping". However, it's also

What is it with the chrysanthemum? Not that long ago they were a stalwart of any gardener's autumn arsenal - not just the enormous ones that look like the rejected hats of a home counties Carmen Miranda, but also Japanese pom-pom and reliable spray

fruit but also for flowers and autumn leaf colour. They are pretty useless as a food crop, except that they do make the most delicious crab apple jelly that goes well with lamb, pork and poultry. However, they are really useful as a pollinator for many

time as the new leaves, but the leaves are very fine. It is happiest on non-acidic soil.There is one outside my office and the leaves are just beginning to turn a rather fabulous buttery yellow. This yellow autumn colour is often seen as a bit second

spinning wheel and fell asleep for 100 years.But I learned about a different type of spindle on a field trip to Kew Gardens, in the autumn of 1984. I remember the moment of revelation very well. At the time I was enrolled on a 10-week gardening course (my

: it is about 3m high and has gloriously scented tubular white flowers in Autumn, lush Autumn colour and bright red berries. Or Gentiana farreri, a trailing evergreen delight with flowers like sky blue fanfares? These are just two of the plants that Reginald