Autumn. Here in the North, leaves turn yellow on trees and bushes. Fruit hang on apple trees, on black chokeberry, rowan and sea buck-thorn trees. Large flocks of blackbirds, starlings, tits and sparrows eat these fruit and take vitamins for the long and cold winter.
The days are cloudy and it often rains.
The last flowers are still pleasing to the eye, they use the sun's heat during the day but freeze at night. Flowers come alive with the first rays of the sun. Frequent rains bend down the heads of flowers, the grass wilts and puddles on paths are for a long time.
Strong northern winds pluck the golden leaves from maples and apples from trees. New England asters (Aster novae-angliae) have bloomed, their small but numerous flowers look beautifully in the light of the low autumn sun.
Another month will pass, and autumn will completely change the landscape, there will be gray-brown shades around. In the meantime, I enjoy September days in the garden, with a variety of leaf and apple colors and last flowering plants.
What is the weather in your place at the end of September?
My video of the Botanic garden in Sweden:
