Your Schuette’s Oak not surprisingly looks a lot like my Procera oaks from Oikos, which are English X Swamp White. I'm taking a big gamble on them as a source of high shade that will be relatively quick growing. So far so good, or at least ok. They aren't as fast as some trees.

Even the larches are muted this year. Here is the top of my L. mastersiana, and the side of my L. kaempferi.

The Japanese larch, so far, has tended to be a bit bright and showier, a blazing yellow some years...the L. m. more of a muted orange or tawny color. But we will see, they are different every year and maybe the Master's larch will improve. As I've said before the Japanese larch has grown much, much faster.

I said I was done posting Camellias but not BLEs! I just ate the only one of these that was ripe. (unedo, indeed!) They really aren't bad. There's a touch of sweetness. It's like an unripe, low-acid blueberry. This 'Elfin King' is blooming like it has never bloomed before, and is full of bees in this mild autumn. So, knock on wood, should have plenty of unedos next fall.

Crappy tree, but the Pyrus calleryana are turning about as purple as anything I’ve ever seen.

I’m cautiously optimistic that despite the lackluster fall color season so far, later stuff like Oaks will be good.

David,

Norways bloom at the wrong time to hybridize with red or silver maples...not to mention, they’re in a different “section” of the Acer genus.

That Larix mastersiana almost has a color more like a Metasequoia or Taxodium, than a larch.

But ironically what captivated me about larches - generally - in the first place was the picture in Conifers around the World of some L. mastersiana in China, in blazing yellow autumn color. Before that I had known they were deciduous pines, essentially, but it hadn't occurred to me they would have good fall color. I'd seen the very old one at Oatlands when I was a teen getting into plants. But not in the fall.

Surprised this bad boy made it through a couple freezes down to 28 degrees. It was 30 degrees for almost 12 hours the other night. Couple others made it and a few others not so much.

acer japonicum aconitifolium

These are from 1-2 weeks ago. Yellows dominated with the Hickories and Black Maple that were deeper in the forest. I remain impressed with Black Maple's drought tolerance and shade tolerance.

Acer nigrum, whaas?

Funny, whaas, the wild sugar maples here are already 90%+ bare. Some of the planted cultivars are coloring well.

HM4E and Beng, those are mostly Acer nigrum. Most sugar maples, especially in the open went leafless many weeks ago due to the droughty conditions.

I'm not kidding when I say how dry it was as the elevation is high for the area and the soils dry extremely quickly. Its basically a strip about 10 x 25 miles that was worse than other areas. I go 10 min northwest where its more wooded with richer more moisture retentive soils and its much more green. Go 20 min northwest and it was a different world! Its not all about temps and actual rainfall but your soil type and exposure that make a world of difference.

Here is my line of Basswoods last October

Same line of Basswoods this October (different angle) that were distraught from beetles and drought. Odd to see such a big difference in defoliation timing.

I was in Vermont yesterday. The hillsides are freckled with color thanks to oaks and bright yellow birches, but a few sugars are still blazing, which I didn't expect for inland maples in early November. I've also included a couple covered bridge pics because they abound and are so pretty, painted and unpainted.

Whaas, your pics are fabulous! I keep looking at them. Thanks for posting. I lived in se WI; Richland Center, Osseo, and Wonewoc. I miss it. Lovely part of the country. Did you ever read Steinbeck's, "Travels with Charlie"? Steinbeck is the reason I moved there.

littleegypt, your first pic is incredible!

Hey Molly, that area is certainly a gem. I planned to go there this past fall but time slipped by.. I spent some time at Spring Green and Governor Dodge State Park a couple years ago. I hadn't heard of the book but now I'm intrigued!

many years away yet but I'm already thinking about where I'm going to retire. It's going to be tough after living in the beautiful serenity of Switzerland.

last look before the last few hanging get blasted by 20s and even teens!

Updated from above

Whaas what is the small variegated tree that you posted back on Oct. 19?

We've had pretty lackluster color here in eastern Mass this fall. 1st half of the summer was wet, the 2nd half was very dry. Many maples got some kind of fungus or blight and the leaves turned brown and crunchy and fell off early. The large Acer saccharum in my front yard had little color to speak of, don't think that's ever happened before.

It's nice to see the color in other places though.

Shumard(?) or Scarlet Oak.

Hey Terrene, that's a Wolf Eyes Dogwood.

The pictures are a little better if you click on them.

Swamp white oak from a couple yrs ago -- not so good this yr:

Here's a few small oaks. Hopefully some of you can for sure identify them. They still give me some trouble, but I'll add my guesses.

Beng, good color for a Swamp white!

Whoa, Kyle! Beautiful photos!!!

Whaas, consider Vermont. They fight franchising and corporations, so the downtowns bustle with entrepreneurs and the middle class is strong. Plus, there are roaring rivers. Alas, they do not flow with maple syrup.

Some small tamarack tucked in some small white pine

This on 40 acres sounds nice!

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Brattleboro-VT/house_type/2098821271_zpid/397786_rid/300000-_price/1101-_mp/globalrelevanceex_sort/43.061864,-72.352524,42.567241,-73.398972_rect/9_zm/

Fall Color of Bald Cypress Cascade Falls

Whaas, I'd spend my whole life cleaning that house and all my money paying its taxes. Could I just buy the garage and live above it?

I was banking on a lottery ticket! Otherwise I would do the same as you and take care of the land!

Got down to 20° last night so the last few started to break loose. Tomorrow night will go down to 15° so that'll certainly close out the season.

We are expected to get down around 20 Friday night. Our first actual freeze and it will be a hard one.

For Kyle: http://www.upworthy.com/what-tennessees-fall-trees-looked-like-to-people-with-colorblindness-until-now?c=pop

Got to 21 last night. Some leaves (zelkova, some maples, Liriodendron, some Sweetgum) went limp or crispy. Oaks and Pyrus seems unfazed.

@ Molly: I saw that story on a local news station this past week. Got a little dusty in the room while watching it :' ). Makes me try even more so to not take the beautiful colors for granted.

Heres a neat little tree:

Clethra acuminata

Oaks are turning brown here. Not much other than them still left with leaves.

Oaks are the major remaining color here -- scarlet (scarlet), black (golden yellow), and northern red (burnt red).

Quercus Alba (my neighbor has 3 huge ones) and Quercus Rubra (I have one that's probably 100 years old) are both just about brown :/ . There are leaves remaining in some spots on cornus florida, but not really much color at this point.

Crape myrtle leaves fried before coloring, thanks to the freeze.

Only fall color left in my yard now is this:

Oak leaves are brown, a bit of dull red and yellow on the sweetgums. Callery pear are still green for the most part, but with a few turning branches (leaves likely won't be gone off of them until mid-december).

Enkianthus campanulatus. Usually it is a deep red. I have no explanation why not this year. Happened to all three which are in different locations and situations. I'm not complaining.

Yeah the fall colors have not been as great in our area this year either. I assume it has something to do with the odd weather this summer. First too wet, then too dry, then an early cold snap followed by a lengthy warm period. I was just glad that our crab apple turned out as nice as it did.

Fall is wheezing here. I have a little color still in my paperbark maple grove and my Japanese Maple bloodgoods still have their leaves, but that's about it. Weirdly, my orchard is still green.

We are months behind people. Mine are just starting. No freeze yet, and no wind to strip them off. These are Quercus buckleyi.