You know what I like besides puppies and peanut butter pretzels? I like surprises. Not a surprise party or surprise visit to my home. But genuine surprises where there aren’t people involved. Unless it’s my kids surprising me. In a good way.

Today’s surprise is courtesy of my Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) ‘Sugar shack’. And that surprise is that it actually has some decent fall color. I didn’t know buttonbush fall color was a thing.

Maybe I missed it previously. This is an area of the garden I don’t frequent that much this time of year when it’s typically wet and I need me some decent galoshes to get there. But color me happy. I love the combo of the orange of the buttonbush and dark red of the Viburnum next door to the left. A blip in time, yes, but a fun and pretty blip at that.

Buttonbush fall color.

A nice surprise.