What autumn changes are happening where you live? Please share your comments with me in the section below.Cross-section of a leaf showing color changesĪ green leaf is green because of the presence of a pigment known as chlorophyll, which is inside an organelle called a chloroplast. I’ll share more photos of the trees in their peak fall colors. Soon, my outdoor grounds crew will be busy blowing all the leaves. These trees also change color – its blue-green foliage turns bright yellow in fall. Outside my Winter House, I have three tall weeping katsura trees. In fact, they get the name “bald” cypress because they drop their leaves so early in the season. The fall colors are tan, cinnamon, and fiery orange. From this angle, one can see the slight tinge of brown in the center tree – this one is always the first to turn. My Stewartia garden across from the long pergola is bordered on one side by a stand of distinguished bald cypress trees, Taxodium distichum. This bush is as low-maintenance as it is dazzling, making it exceptionally easy to grow as either a single specimen plant or in a grouping. Not far is this striking burning bush shrub with fiery scarlet foliage just starting to show. Maple fall colors range from yellow to orange to red. Here are more maples outside my main greenhouse. Pin oaks normally reach 60 to 70 feet tall but can reach heights of 100 feet. The pin oak also has an interesting growth habit, with pendulous lower branches, horizontal middle branches, and upright upper branches. Once its fall color display is done, pin oaks often retain brown leaves, which persist on the trees through winter. The leaves are changing to yellow and reddish bronze. Looking up, these pin oaks are just starting to turn color. They are so easy to grow and maintain – they are popular landscape trees. My pin oaks, Quercus palustris, have done so well. Here is one of many Japanese maple trees at my farm and one of the two I planted in 2019 after taking down six large evergreens from this area. In time, this section will be as full as the original half. I loved the linden tree allee so much, I decided to extend it all the way down to the chicken coops – I am so pleased with how well it is growing. This linden allee runs from the old corn crib to my allée of boxwood. These sugar maples above my tree peony garden bed also display gorgeous color in fall – the leaves turn vibrant shades of yellow, burnt orange, and red. Many of these trees are deciduous, meaning they tend to seasonally shed their leaves after showing off their brilliant fall colors. Its glossy green, star-shaped leaves turn fiery shades of red, orange, yellow and purple in the fall. These leaves are turning scarlet red.įor fall color, the sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua, is hard to beat. Up close, one can see the seed catkins hanging from the branches, holding about 10 to 30 seeds each.Ĭotinus, the smoke bush, has large round leaves and spectacular autumn color. Look closely, the leaves are changing – the foliage turns a bright yellow color in fall. I love these weeping hornbeams – the branches of these trees gracefully weep creating an umbrella of foliage that reaches the ground. Here are the weeping hornbeams, Carpinus betulus Pendula, on one side of my “soccer field” where my grandson plays whenever he visits. The oblong green leaves turn various shades of red, orange and yellow in the fall, often persisting into the winter months. Persian parrotia or Persian ironwood is a small upright tree or large, rounded, multi-stemmed shrub. The American beech, Fagus grandifolia, is native to eastern North America and turns a pretty golden-bronze in fall. Here is my grove of American beech trees. Although some autumn coloration occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, the most brightly colored foliage is seen in Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia, northern and western Europe, the Caucasus region near the Black Sea, Russia, eastern Asia, Argentina, Chile, southern Brazil, Korea, Japan, and New Zealand’s South Island. I love the layers of color created by the changing leaves. The perimeter around my paddocks displays such wonderful shades of orange, yellow, amber, brown, and green. London plane trees are among the first to change color in fall from a deep green to yellow brown. The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to gold and orange colors come out and give the leaves part of their fall splendor. Some trees change early, others late – usually from October to November in the Northeast.īecause of changes in the length of daylight and changes in temperature, leaves stop their food-making process. Here, the changing leaves haven’t quite peaked yet, but the fall foliage is already looking so pretty around the farm.
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