Houzz Call: Show Us Your Fall Color!

We want to see a photo of the best fall color where you are. Before winter forces many of us indoors for the season, let’s celebrate this beautiful time of year by getting outside and looking around.

Calling all Houzzers: Grab your camera and take a few photos of what autumn looks like to you. Upload your best shot to the Comments section below and tell us about it!

Home gardeners: We’d love to see your yard in its fall glory.
Landscape architects and designers: Show us your latest fall-friendly design.
Architects and builders: We’d love to see what your project looks like against its fall backdrop.
Interior designers and decorators: Framing a beautiful fall view or decorating with leaves and branches? We’d love to see how you’re bringing the outdoors in.


Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) enhances the landscape year-round, but it’s in fall when specimens take center stage. The cultivar ‘Fireglow’ sets this Pacific Northwest entry garden ablaze with its fiery red foliage, which contrasts the soft green understory planting and gravel driveway.

We want to see: Are trees showing their fall colors where you live?


Here a female leafcutter bee feeds on New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), a late-season aster that blooms and blooms throughout much of North America from late summer into fall. The cool purples and blues of aster add more hues to the typical fall palette.

Asters are one of the most important flowers for insects, providing both pollen and nectar to pollinators like bees and butterflies. And when many flowers have finished flowering for the season, asters across the country are in full bloom.

Show us: Are birds, butterflies and bees discovering your fall garden?


The golden color of U.S. West Coast native quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) envelops this home in Colorado. This tree is known for its fall color but offers ornamental interest over multiple seasons.


Each falling leaf brings the landscape closer to dormancy, and the scattered leaves on this New York lawn reveal the shift that is brought into focus every autumn.

Show us: Is your yard covered in a seasonal blanket of leaves? Take a picture and upload it to the Comments.


Fall reveals a garden’s structure and textural contrast. In this St. Louis landscape, a mixture of Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) and other native grasses is filled in with perennials. Though the soft texture of the perennial border has hardened, the exposed seed heads and stems reveal a sculptural and architectural skeleton that will nourish foraging birds and wildlife over winter.

Your turn: What plants are looking their best right now? Take a photo of the seasonal color in your garden or neighborhood and upload it to the Comments. You may see your photo in a future ideabook for the Houzz homepage and newsletter!

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