It is looking a bit more like autumn as a few more species respond to cooling weather by discoloring or deteriorating before defoliation.
1. Hosta plantaginea, hosta is really looking shabby now. Actually though, it never really looked all that good. The difference is that this shabbiness is because of cooling weather.
2. Plectranthus scutellarioides, coleus, which looked so splendid for Six on Saturday two weeks ago, is beginning to succumb to cooling weather, as is typical for this time of year.
3. Acer palmatum, Japanese maple, which was still green for Six on Saturday two weeks ago, is now beginning to yellow in response to cooling weather, as it should for autumn.
4. Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ Japanese maple was already bronzy red, but is beginning to turn a bit brighter red because of the cooling weather. Its color may linger for a while.
5. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood is likewise beginning to yellow because of cooling weather. It eventually turns brown while all the other redwoods remain green.
6. Rosa, carpet rose is the only one of these six that is not responding to cooling weather as it produces a few rose hips. I did not expect this. Rose hips are rare in our landscapes.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
Everything seems to be quieting down now, but what a pop those rosehips give.
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Yes, autumn can be a bit late here, but eventually happens.
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I love that evergreens sometimes are not evergreen! We have quite a few tamarack on campus which look to my inexpert eye like so many other conifers, but then they turn brown and lose their leaves! Shocking if one is not expecting it! Things are whitening here!
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Dawn redwood is still appreciated as an oddity. I, however, am not so keen on it, especially mixed with common redwoods. For a while, it looks dead. People sometimes ask about it. A bald cypress lives nearby, but it has a more distinctive form, so does not look like a dead redwood. Tamarack or larch are popular for bonsai.
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Those are some lovely trees! How wonderful to live close to them.
The carpet rose looks lovely, too. Nice to have a pop of colour like that.
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Thank you. We do appreciate our trees. Among the redwoods, there is not much space to add many more.
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