How about this for hanging onto fall color?  This is Nandina domestica.  'Fire Power' is the cultivar name.  

 

These bushes are only about 24 inches tall and 18 inches across.  I love this planting, where the bushes were planted close  together forming a little mound.  And the best news on Nandina:  They are deer resistant!!!

 

What a nice plant to put in your front flower bed:  it has beautiful fall color, it doesn't get too big, and the deer leave it alone.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!