FALL COLOR THREAD - 2020
If you got them, show them. :-)
Acer saccharum:
Fraxinus nigra.
eta: The Fraxinus keeps disappearing, I've edited it 4 times and even deleted and reposted once, I give up!
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3 years agoMy last entry for this season:
Betula papyrifera. Slow to turn like most everything around here.
L Clark (zone 4 WY)
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Comments (75)Mine are quite THAT big, but still vigorous as own roots. reaching about 6- by seasons end. One (of two) is definitely much larger that the other which drove me nuts until I realized it was just an opportunity to plant a small rose in front of it. This rose welcomes a hard prune and I've often wondered if I should just be more ruthless after the first flush. I may experiment this year. they were two of my first roses bought from Chamblee in 2016!!!...See More2020 Color Thread: RED Roses
Comments (85)Beautiful post. JC, my MW also shows that colour usually for her first flush, but not this year. It must be the cool cloudy spring. Stephanie, please show more Valentine. I have a little one transplanted late last Fall after letting it languish in a poor setting and am anxiously awaiting its bloom....See More2020 Color Threads: ORANGE/APRICOT Roses
Comments (43)Tammy (zone 5/6 southern Ontario) I'm in zone 5a, how is the winter survival of Port Sunlight compared to Elle? Thanks for any info. If someone else know about the hardiness of the above, please let me know. Much appreciated....See More2020 Color Threads: Bi-Color, Multi-Color, Stripe, etc.
Comments (28)Christine. She is on HMF. But there have been some recent post about her I'll see if I can find them. She is on my list from Burling when I get my other two roses. She bred her but I think Angel Gardens may carry her also....See MoreL Clark (zone 4 WY)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agobehold the “fall colors” of an austrian pine
not a tree, but some good old cotoneaster. the pics never look as good as real life
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whaas_5a
3 years ago1 degree off from a record freeze.
Frost was insanely dense.Few things aren’t looking too good.
Freeman maples always srug off the freezes.
Acer x Firefall
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3 years agoI put out an additional thermostat as I didn't believe the fact temps tanked from upper 40s to 32 degrees by 8pm.
Note the high - it was a long freeze. Water in the hoses froze solid.
Average low is 46. Occasionally we‘ll see these temps late October. Although this year was just utterly brutal with freezes and lack of rain, I’m counting my blessings after witnessing the devastation in other areas.
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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3 years ago
maackia
3 years agoThis has been a splendid year for fall color. The maples are about done, but the native oaks are now putting on a show.
Here's Korean Mountain Ash (Sorbus alnifolia).
And Northern Pin Oak (Q. ellipsoidalis).
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoKorean Mountainash should definitely be planted more often here in the Great Lakes region, but very few nurseries grow it; maackia - did yours come from a local nursery?
Fall color is currently very good on many of the maples, blackgums, sassafras, sumacs, and some of the hickories. This witch-hazel at an area park (today) was nearing peak color ... and flowering:
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3 years agoNeighbor’s Burning Bush Tree. As you can see it’s a tree. They are now considered invasive and you can only have them in Bush form. Their tree was grandfathered in. It puts on a lovely show each fall......it has not reached its peak color yet.
debra
large maple down the street
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3 years agoColors along the roadside this afternoon: Sumac, Sassafras, and yes, even ... Ailanthus
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3 years ago
Hydrangea quercifolia starting to go red.Houzz driving me crazy tonight, can’t get more than one pic at a time to load.
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3 years agoSedum Autumn Joy, Verbena bonariensis, and Amelanchier x Grandiflora Autumn Brilliance.
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3 years agoThanks for the info. It’s almost impossible for me to get anything from america right now with COVID. Takes forever and you have to pay for the certificate.
Anyone else living in the middle of North America? Yikes.
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3 years agoL Clark (zone 4 WY)
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NHBabs z4b-5a NH
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI always really enjoy theannual fall color thread. Thanks to everyone who added such beautiful photos,
Blueberry
Mix of birch and maple along with hemlocks and white pine providing a dark green contrast
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3 years agoAt this time of year this poem of Wendell Berry always comes to mind because of the last stanza.
Slowly, slowly, they returnTo the small woodland let alone:
Great trees, outspreading and upright,
Apostles of the living light.
Patient as stars, they build in air
Tier after tier a timbered choir,
Stout beams upholding weightless grace
Of song, a blessing on this place.
They stand in waiting all around,
Uprisings of their native ground,
Downcomings of the distant light;
They are the advent they await.
Receiving sun and giving shade,
Their life’s a benefaction made,
And is a benediction said
Over the living and the dead.
In fall their brightened leaves, released,
Fly down the wind, and we are pleased
To walk on radiance, amazed.
O light come down to earth, be praised!
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoShellbark hickory w/reddish pondcypresses behind. Fast grower for a hickory.
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3 years agoCotinus obovatus at near-peak color this week, with Amsonia hubrichtii in the foreground.
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3 years ago10 days later, here is my Hydrangea quercifolia
and here is an update of the Nyssa sylvatica
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoAllee II Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia -- 15 yrs old. Reddish baldcypresses in background. Thousands of seeds, but infertile as there aren't any nearby compatible elms for cross-pollination.
Longleaf pine & Millwood x Thornless honeylocust, both also ~ 15 yrs old. Honeylocust is 50 ft tall:
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3 years agobengz6westmd - interesting that your Allee has already colored up. We've planted a small number here, most of which are still fully green.
Yellowwood this afternoon (10/28/20):
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3 years agoThis Sugar Maple is sadly the only one of my trees to turn colors in the fall, but it never disappoints.
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3 years agoThis is it for me: Larix decidua. This picture was taken a couple of days ago, but it has only gotten more vibrant. It is in more shade than it prefers, and growth is less than what you’d expect for European Larch.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago11-4-2020
The native L. laricina here have been exceedingly slow in loosing their needles and have been colored for weeks.
My only specimen was mostly green until it warmed up into the 60's & 70's recently.
No sun to brighten it up but here's 'Larry'. :-)
Can't believe I was watering trees in November. :-o
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arbordave (SE MI)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoPacific Sunset Maple this afternoon (11/7/20), with some tar spot that makes for a nice "polka dot" effect ;)
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