After a very busy month, I’m ready to start sharing about my 18-day, 2,200-mile road trip through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic earlier this month.
To recap, I flew into Portland, Maine, on September 30 to see New England fall foliage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, followed by garden touring down the Eastern Seaboard to Virginia.
My husband accompanied me for the first week, and we visited Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens on our first full day (coming up in my next post). Late that afternoon we drove on to Damariscotta, Maine, where we’ve spent happy summer days with his family over the years. It was interesting to see it in a different season.
Gray skies and cool weather were a welcome change from Texas’s lingering summer heat.
I’m always charmed by Damariscotta’s old brick buildings, and its fall decorating didn’t disappoint either. Bright pumpkins and potted grasses dress up this shop’s entrance.
A spooky vase of brown papyrus seedheads with potted succulents made me stop at this shop window.
Street planters were still lush with cinnamon-hued cordyline, yellow-flowering annuals, and a cascade of greenery sparkling with white flowers. This reminds me to use cordyline more often as an annual for planters in my own garden. In warm winters it may even overwinter in Austin.
Up next: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens wows with dahlias, late-season perennials, and…trolls!
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