Today’s photos come from Lizzy Cordova, who shares some beautiful images of autumn in her garden in North Orange County, California.

When autumn comes, suddenly it’s the garden’s second spring. In my Zone 9b–10 garden, autumn is wrought more in fruits than flowers. We haven’t had rain, but the garden has thrived. Whatever harvest the garden gives, it is generously shared with friends.

The angel’s trumpet (Brugmansia sp., Zones 8–11) towers over the trained ‘Pierre de Ronsard’ rose to the left of the arbor that blooms beautifully in clusters in the springtime. The pineapple sage (Salvia elegans, Zones 8–11), despite being headed back, shows off its red rocket blooms. From tiny cuttings, this plectranthus (Plectranthus neochilus ‘Mike’s Fuzzy Wuzzy’, Zones 9–11) with blue spike flowers just took off. On the right of the teak arbor, the favorite ‘Gold Flame’ honeysuckle (Lonicera × heckrottii ‘Gold Flame’, Zones 5–9) is making a comeback after it got butchered by house painters last year.

The darling dahlias strut their pompon blooms seemingly like concentric origamis. Read this to find the best dahlias for your garden.

The Cara Cara orange tree is promising a great harvest this fall. It’s not even transplanted into that glazed blue urn it was meant for.

Pomeloes will be ready for harvest by December. They’re literally bigger than my head!

The branches are weighed down with persimmon abundance, as they are every year. The harvest will be ready in two weeks.

A few of the blooms in the garden will make a delicate tussie-mussie.

This night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum, Zones 9–11) perfumes the night air as I meander around the garden, under the autumn moon. The starlike blooms close at daybreak.

This English tree rose ‘Shropshire Lad’ despises being pruned. It took off and landed atop the side-porch lantern!

GPOD fans, our submissions always drop off a little in the fall and winter, so if you’ve thought about submitting but never have, now is the time! And just because it is fall doesn’t mean you need to submit photos of your fall garden. It is always fun to look back at the garden as it was earlier in the year.

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