Plenty of color remains in our flower beds, even as the leaves overhead begin to turn autumnal shades. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Mums, sweet potato vines and a statue named Alice at the home of Chris Bridge in Diggs.

Coleus and impatiens make a pretty combination at Judy Moughon’s home in Mathews.

Asters and goldenrod from Joan Keith’s garden.

Montauk daisies and Reblooming Azalea, sent by Patricia Olsen of The Glebe in Mathews.

An aster and a huge bumblebee sent by Linda Moorman of Mathews.

A bouquet from Louise Witherspoon of Port Haywood, from left, late-blooming petunias, tiny asters growing wild along roads in Mathews, single heirloom mum, goldenrod and bumblebee, and a black-eyed Susan vine.

Lewis Hubbard of Cardinal sent these photos, from left, Camellia sasanqua Delilah, Camellia hybrid Winter’s Star, and Camellia sasanqua William Lanier Hunt.
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