Autumn Colour Gardening

The autumn colour from the trees on the hillsides nearby is great this year - buttery yellow beech in the main, but in the garden everything is positively glowing. The amelanchier looks better than any fireworks display, a Nyssa appears as if in fire and  the Persian ironwood or Parrotia and the Liquidambar are fantastic too.  I should be satisfied, but I have to say it is at this time of year that I am always tempted to treat myself yo a little more autumn glory.  My excuse?  Its simple really, the best time to buy plants for autumn colour is when they are showing what they have to offer.  It is all very well reading descriptions or admiring pictures in books or magazines, but there is nothing quite like seeing what each cultivar has to offer in REALITY.  True soil and weather conditions will both influence the display, but if you buy it whilst it is doing its best to impress, then you can't go far wrong....tempted?  Me, all I can say perhaps it is lucky that someone smashed the back of my car in and I've still not got it back.....somehow I feel more guilty about filling the boot of a hire car with compost and other likely fall out from a new purchase!!  But for how much longer will I be able to resist???