The arrival of fall typically ushers in the end of the yardwork season. Any planting I may be considering won't happen until next spring. The rest of this year will be spent mulching all of the leaves that will be falling over the next couple of months. This is a good time to check out the results of this year's Yard Adventure.

Both the Japanese Maple tree and Small Anise tree behind it seem to have grown quite a bit this year. Removing all of the irises that surrounded everything was a good idea.

The Vitex Shoal Creek continues to grow quite well.

I had more pampas grass blooms this year than ever before.

The pampas grass looked great this year.

Removing all of the irises that surrounded the other pampas grass plant will give it more room.

The Pink Muhly Grass plants look great !

I am hoping that giving them more room will be beneficial.

Trimming all of the low branches off of the Dogwood Cherokee Princess made it look like an actual tree.

I'm reading where the berries on a dogwood tree are not poisonous, not that I would ever eat them anyways.

While not poisonous, contact with the berries has been known to produce skin rashes.

The digging, dividing, and replanting of the center section of irises took place last month. This area is now much smaller, which will give everything around it more room.

I did some weeding and spread some mulch a few weeks ago to make the area look nice. Everything I replanted is growing, which is a good sign.

Another view of the Pink Muhly Grass.

All of the irises I replanted throughout the yard are growing quite well.

Moving on to the backyard, the two Illicium Pink Frost plants and the Pieris Snowdrift have continued to do well.

The pink frost on the left side of the photo above has grown much taller than the one on the right. I think this has to do with the different amount of shade for each location.

The three Japanese Boxwood bushes I planted in 2012 have done very well with very little input from me, which is just the way I like it.

The leaning tower of pine tree broke off during a storm recently. I gathered everything up and plan to put everything out front for the next several Leaf & Limb collections.

The parts of the tree that are rotted and broken won't be a problem.

I may have to split the larger sections of the tree to meet the Leaf & Limb size requirements.

I was able to take the dead sections and split them quite easily. Hopefully, this will be the case with the other sections over the coming months.

The photo above shows all that remains of the tree. I'll worry about dropping this later.

The bush seen in the photos above and below has resided in my yard longer than I.

It produces berries every fall without any input from me whatsoever.

As near as I can determine, this looks like an American Beautyberry, which is common in the southeast.