More Photos from Our Community

Since we can't get to as many gardens as we'd like, we'll have to live vicariously through the photos club members have taken in October's, over the years.

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Whirlwind Blue Fan Flower
Goldilocks Rocks Bidens
Superbena Pink Cashmere Verbena
Snowstorm Rose Bacopa
Superbells Tangerine Punch Calibrachoa
Mixed mums bordered by yew hedges
Trademark bark of the Paper Birch
Fall Fiesta Sugar Maple parties hardest in fall!  Behind, is a standard issue Sugar Maple for comparison...
Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), in fall
Green Mountain Sugar Maple
Autumn Blaze Pear, Weeping Willow, ? Mums
Tardiva Panicle Hydrangea, Virginia Creeper
Petra Croton
Autumn Blaze Freeman Maple trees, all in a row
Sugar Maple in front of Birch & Hosta
Shagbark Hickory leaves turning yellow in fall
Crescendo Sugar Maple in fall glory
Autumn Blaze Pear, Weeping Willow
Dianthus 'Floral Lace Picotee'
Hybrid Musk Rose in front of Evolution Mealycup Sage
Green Giant Arborvitae
Andean Sage, Virginia Creeper, Late Panicle Hydrangea, Crystal Peak White Obedient Plant
American Elm
Whitespire Gray Birch
Whitespire Gray Birch
Splendid Cornelia Hyacinth, in bloom
Junkyard Dog Dahlia
Hedge Maze at the Morton Arboretum
Intenz Celosia in front of Mona Lavender
Fairy White Hyacinth at the Chicago Garden Show
Flowers of Mealycup Sage
Vista Purple Sage
Katsura Tree, in autumn
Burning Bushes, Ornamental Grasses
River Birch grove
Scalet oak is best-known for the brilliant red of its autumn foliage
Heuchera 'Obsidian' contrasts nicely with the green foliage of Hostas
Betula microphylla
Orange fall foliage of a Sugar Maple glows in the distance
  Diamond Frost Spurge, Illusion Midnight Lace Sweet Potato, Timeless Pink Geranium
Hedge Maze at the Morton Arboretum
Autumn Purple White Ash, in fall
New Horizon Elm
White Satin Birch
Green Mountain Sugar Maple, brilliant orange in fall
Angelface White Angelonia
Colorblaze Golden Dreams Coleus
Sunstar Red Egyptian Star Flower
Superbells Double Blue Million Bells
ColorBlaze Wicked Hot Coleus
Sunjoy Orange Pillar Barberry
Bark of a River Birch
Asian Black Birch
'Rockapulco Tropical Shades Common Impatiens
Fire Away Hot And Heavy Pepper
Double Up White Begonia
Autumn Blaze Pear, Weeping Willow, and ? Mums
Maryl Garden Mum
Sunstar Red Egyptian Star Flower
Leaves of the Prairie Flame Dwarf Sumac, in autumn
Japanese Walnut
October Skies Aromatic Aster
Bombshell Coral Pink Dipladenia
Proven Accents Petite Licorice
Tuscan Sun Ox-Eye Daisy, Diamond Frost Spurge
River Birch
Autumn Blaze Freeman Maple
Sugar Maple, turning orange in Autumn
Green Mountain Sugar Maple
Bald Cypress
Maryl Garden Mum, Junkyard Dog Dahlia
Renaissance Reflection Paper Birch
Asiatic Lily
Shasta Doublefile Viburnum, in Autumn
Rockin' Fuchsia Salvia
Andean Sage, Tardiva Panicle Hydrange, Blue Paradise Garden Phlox, Lamb's Ears
Mojave Mango Purslane
Sky Rocket Fountain Grass, Supertunia Mini Vista White Petunia, Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo Petunia, Mini Vista Violet Star Petunia
Ruby Anniversary Abelia
Hedge Maze at the Morton Arboretum
Superbells Plum Calibrachoa, Superbells Yellow Chiffon Calibrachoa, Opal Innocence Nemesia
Laguna Sky Blue Lobelia, Supertunia Vista Fuchsia, Supertunia Royal Velvet Petunia, Superbena Large Lilac Blue Verbena
Sugar Maple, starting to turn
Bright Lights Purple African Daisy
Bright Lights White African Daisy
Black Maple in fall
American Witch Hazel in fall
Bombshell White Dipladenia
An Autumn Blaze Red Maple blazes in fall...
Intenz Celosia
Korean Boxwood hedge
Leadwort - Plumbago
ColorBlaze Wicked Witch Coleus
Canopy of a Japanese Walnut
Supertunia Bordeaux Petunia, Lemon Symphony African Daisy, Tukana Raspberry Verbena
Red Maple in fall
Washington Hawthorn
Seven-Son Flower hedge, in bloom
Red Monarch Fothergilla hedge in fall
Fall colors - Sugar Maple & Norway Maple
Fiber Optic Grass, Blue Mohawk Rush
Mesa Bright Bicolor Blanket Flower, in bloom
Distinctive bark of the Bloodgood London Planetree
China Pink Hyacinth, in bloom
Leaves of Threeflower Maple in fall
Autumn Purple White Ash, starting to turn in fall
Renaissance Reflection Paper Birch
Rockin' Blue Suede Shoes Salvia
Red Maple are often yellow in fall
Fall Festival White Ash in Autumn
Silver Maple
Marmo Freeman's Maple
Arkansas Blue Star, Fountain Grass
 Golden Japanese forest grass
Canopy of Green Mountain Sugar Maple in fall
Silver Falls Dichondra
Eastern White Pine
Sweet Shadow Sugar Maple, in fall
Moor Birch
Fox Valley River Birch
Washington Hawthorn
Andean Sage, in bloom
Berried Treasure Pink Strawberry
Korean Maple in fall
Purple Rain Lilac Sage
Red Sunset Red Maple
Colorblaze Sedona Sunset Coleus, ColorBlaze Dipt in Wine Coleus, Colorblaze Dark Star Coleus
Bloodgood London Planetree
Bald Cypress
Little Lamb Panicle Hydrangea in fall
Trinity Callery Pear
Virginia Creeper leaves turn bright red in fall
Canopy of a Yellow Birch
A Sugar Maple canopy
Korean Boxwood formal hedge
Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush
Sugar Maple
Sunstar Rose Egyptian Star Flower
Luscious Goldengate Lantana
Supertunia Bermuda Beach Petunia, Whirlwind Blue Fan Flower, Diamond Frost Spurge
Canopy of an Asian Black Birch
Maple, in fall
Flower of a Woodstock Hyacinth
Jack Frost Siberian Bugloss
Mount Airy Fothergilla hedge in fall
Two River Birch trunks
'Rockapulco Tropical Shades Common Impatiens
Seaside Alder
Luscious Lemonade Lantana
Blue Mohawk Rush, Supertunia Royal Velvet Petunia, Supertunia Trailing Blue Petunia, Superbena Large Lilac Blue Verbena
Sky Rocket Fountain Grass, Mojave Fuchsia Purslane, Sunstar Lavender Egyptian Star Flower, Sunstar Pink Egyptian Star Flower
Green Mountain Sugar Maple, turning crimson in fall
Paper Birch
Sunstar Pink Egyptian Star Flower
Dick Clark Grandiflora Rose, in bloom
Suzanne Dwarf Fothergilla
Snowstorm Snow Globe Bacopa
Asiatic Lily, in bloom
Prairie Flame Dwarf Sumac, in fall
Autumn Blaze Maple turning color in Autumn
Merlot® Bird Cherry
Superform Norway Maple
Little Walnut
Unique Panicle Hydrangea, in bloom
 Luscious Lemonade Lantana, in bloom
Green Mountain Sugar Maple
Diamond Snow Spurge
Colorblaze Sedona Sunset Coleus
Sugar Maple, early fall
Trunk of a Yellow Birch
Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress
Mojave Red Purslane
Superbells Dreamsicle Calibrachoa, SUNSATIA Blood Orange Nemesia, Vertigo Grass, Honey Supertunia, Black Pearl Heuchera, Black Pearl Ornamental Pepper
Eastern White Pine
Virginia Creeper, in fall
Wildfire: Supertunia Bermuda Beach Petunia, Superbena Scarlet Star Verbena
Ironwood (Carpinus caroliniana), turning orange in fall
Flowers of the Polyantha Rose
Sawtooth Oak
Leaves of an Autumn Purple White Ash, turning purple in fall
Flowers of Supertunia Vista Silverberry
Climbing Hydrangea
Sherwood Glen Green Ash, in fall
Autumn Blaze Pear, Weeping Willows in fall
Maple Leaf Oak, in Autumn
White Spruce
Windy City White Ash
Black Walnut
Superhero Rose hedge
Endowment Sugar Maple
Maryl Garden Mum, Junkyard Dog Dahlia
Commendation Elm
Korean Maple in fall
Autumn Blaze Freeman's Maple, in early Fall
London Planetree (Platanus x acerifolia)
River Birch
Asian Black Birch
Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
Colorblaze Lime Time Coleus, Fiber Optic Grass, Superbells Saffron Calibrachoa
Marmo Freeman's Maple
Redbud, in fall
Autumn Blaze Pear, Weeping Willow
Eastern White Pine
Royal Raindrops Flowering Crabapple, Pink Double Knock Out Rose
Andean Sage, Virginia Creeper
Snow Queen Oak-Leaved Hydrangea turns bright red in fall!
Maple, in fall
Canopy of an Asian Black Birch
Freeman's Maple - Autumn Blaze
Old Blush China Rose, in bloom
ColorBlaze El Brighto Coleus
Mini Vista Violet Star Petunia, Supertunia Mini Vista White Petunia
3 Norway Spruce
Laguna Sky Blue Lobelia, Snowstorm Giant Snowflake
Renaissance Reflection Paper Birch
Mojave Tangerine Purslane
Superbells Blackcurrant Punch Million Bells
Endowment Sugar Maple, in fall
Autumn Applause White Ash, early fall


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