I’m several weeks behind on posting these photos of the garden. Most of these photos were taken October 20 and 25.

The last turtlehead held out until the 20th:

The new native false indigo turned yellow:

So did the whorled milkweed:

Lots of pretty goldenrods:

A gathering of large milkweed bugs on bee balm:

Butterfly weed seed pods popped open:

Culver’s root:

Stiff goldenrod:

Beautiful red stems of giant purple hyssop:

The spiderwort cultivar resprouting:

Hepatica leaves visible, though I didn’t see flowers reblooming like many other people did:

A squash, unexpectedly growing in the flower garden:

Part of a paper wasp nest, probably carried in by wind:

Milkweed fluff stuck on bee balm: