With the exception of a few blue spires of monkshood (Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii'), foliage colours of green, russet, gold and silver dominate the backyard.
A new acquisition this year, Cotinus 'Young Lady', a compact form of smokebush, is among the clearest golds, with dark red slowly seeping out between the veins.
Similar colouring infuses a native currant in a corner of the vegetable garden, although more of it has already deepened to red.
In front of the house, Disanthus cercidifolius, which looked so vibrant at the end of September...
...is now a scrawl of bare branches above the dying foliage around its base.
Not all is in decline however. This is the moment for Mahonia 'Winter Sun' to shine. Its buds are already bursting with the promise of winter flowers that will lure Anna's hummingbirds to join the juncos and chickadees who are enlivening the garden every day as they hunt for bugs and seeds among the debris.
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