#sevensonflower

The season closing in and still there are flowers to set off the burnished foliage of autumn.  

Raydon’s Favorite Asters are full of their lavender dreaminess.  This floral display is such a great reward for putting up with their somewhat weedy selves throughout the summer.

The tree with what looks like red flowers is the Seven Son Flower, Heptacodium miconoides, showing off it’s red phase of the flowers.  These are not really flowers at all, but, instead, calyces surrounding small fruits formed from the fragrant white flowers that lasted throughout the month of September.  

Seven Son Flower, Heptacodium miconioides

In full bloom now to the delight of seemingly millions of bees and the occasional butterfly!  Pleasantly fragrant flowers gently fall like snow carpeting the ground and plantings beneath it.