Two more box elders and a Kentucky coffeetree. They look way more vibrant in real life lol.

Whsaa - I do not think the box elder in my previous reply is ‘sensation’, but a different cultivar that I can’t remember the name of. Ditto for the first one in this post, but i’m pretty sure the second box elder in this reply is ‘sensation’. Sensation gets sort of pinkish orange rather than red orange. Laramie, WY is the box elder capital. Ha ha. It’s all we got for red/orange color. ‘Sensation’ and the other cultivar are very worthwhile and decent trees imo, especially for here where we can’t grow ‘better’ maples and other trees

Fall color variablilty is definltey interesting - we many many Acer negundo growing around here - they are actually quite weedy and I've never see anything but best case a greenish yellow fall color. Typically poor form too.

The specimens you show are nice all around - thanks for sharing!

whaas, sudden cool, dry weather has hit WY & maybe that helps the color. My coffeetree never colors that well.

It's been pretty dang warm, actually. We still haven't had a freeze yet which is very late. This cold front is not hitting SE Wyoming for another few days.

Things are just starting to get colorful here in upstate NY. First, a couple of shots from neighbors' properties:

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Fraxinus americana

A Quercus (possibly something in the Quercus rubra group?) that's not only coloring up very early for oaks around here, but has also taken on some very Sugar Maple-like tones of neon orange and scarlet...quite striking!

And then a few from my garden:

Fothergilla 'Mt Airy'

Aronia melanocarpa 'Low Scape Mound'

The very beginnings of color on Nyssa sylvatica 'Green Gable'

And even some surprisingly nice fall color on Hydrangea paniculata 'Fire Light'!

Its refreshing to see there are still Ash specimens out there. As little as 5 years ago Ash was the harbinger of fall here. Thousands of native ash would light up the forests with the brilliant yellows and reds. Now you'd be lucky to spot a 20' specimen.

The number of ash are greatly underestimated in my opion. There are litteraly thousands of dead ash in my vicinity. I'm getting depressed just thinking about it so keep those fall color pics coming!

whaas, EAB swept thru here couple yrs ago, but alot of ash seedlings & saplings on my lot. But the EAB is even attacking those now.

Oregon Blue, Lawson Cypress and Japanese maple grown from seed.

Was a 'Leaf Peeper' out east. I tried to post from my phone

but this site refused to let me post a pic from my phone. < rant off >

So these pics are a week old and things were not quite peak colors. The best colors were at the higher elevations and some were peak but hard to get good pics at 60 mph from the bus. :-)

Hogback mountain in Vermont:

A place called 'Sugar Hill' in New Hampshire:

Classic New England color, Bill. I was in Bemidji, Minnesota the first week of October, and while the yellows were lovely, there wasn’t nearly the range of colors seen in a New England autumn.

These are starting from October 8 and progressing through last week. None were taken in optimal light, so you will have to imagine that the colors were far brighter in reality.

my side yard looking up to the road from the back field

A few more taken from near the first photo but about a week later.

also looking east toward the road

Turned 90 degrees to the south looking down the edge of the hay field.

Standing across from the house looking north.

We had a nor’easter last night, so all the maples are now bare with the oaks just starting to develop color. I can’t see any beeches from the house, so I don’t know how well they hung onto their leaves.

In Minnesota, poplars and pine dominate much of the northern woods, that diminishes the areas showing orange. Plus the flat land elevation doesn't give you view over multiple acreages like the mountains out east do.

I was probably the only one on the bus noticing the beautiful Eastern Hemlocks everywhere. Hemlock Heaven? :-) The seedlings were growing thick as grass around the unmowed areas around the parking lot at a hanging bridge we stopped at in NH. There were many large specimens around the woods including pure stands.

Hemlock near the water by the bridge.

From the Franconia notch tram, White Mountains NH. Many fir trees (balsamea?). Sugar maples down below (orange)

From the observation deck (4300ft+).

I was surprised by the scale of the stream. The person appears much smaller than I thought it would before opening the pic up. Beautiful picture. Bill!

My red oak (Q. rubra) is showing some nice colors as well.

Bill_minn, looks like yellow-leaved striped maple underneath the hemlocks.

Mike,I too wondered why I took a picture of such puny trees, then noticed how small the person looked walking down below. :-) Some boulders were the size of pickup trucks. I didn't get any pics of the 'Rocky Gorge', there were cliffs on each side of the stream and steps in the bedrock, with cascading water. View upstream, more tame banks.

Norbert,

Nice shades of red on that one! I missed the peak of all my yard trees being gone this year. My Acer rubrum was 50% before I left, now it doesn't have leaves anymore. :-)

Beng,

I'm sure there were many trees I passed that I didn't recognize. I thought about seed collecting but didn't want to bring home a bunch of trees that wouldn't survive here, so I stuck to the leaf peeping. :-)

We passed by some commercial sized green houses that covered many acres with multiple buildings that were interesting but didn't stop for. And most of the plant nurseries we saw had season end sales going on.

View of bridge.

First, a few from my own yard today:

Cotinus obovatus, just starting its show.

Stewartia pseudocamellia

Color from unexpected sources: Hydrangea paniculata 'Fire Light'

A few photos I took in the last week at a nearby university arboretum:

Parrotia persica

Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'

Nyssa sylvatica

Acer triflorum

pawpaws in the understory (photo taken today)

Japanese maple with Fall color in my garden.

Acer palmatum from selected seed.

When this thread first started, there was not all that much fall color showing locally. What a difference a month makes! Now the neighborhoods are glowing :-) Still not that much in my garden as most of it is too shaded as well as too many conifers and evergreens to show a lot of color. But most of my Japanese maples are coloring up nicely. It is still pitch dark here but will try to get a photo later.

Friday I was taken on a short road trip for my birthday up into the mountains (to Leavenworth for Mike or others that know the area) and our gloomy weather actually cleared enough to see some spectacular color! Because ours are primarily coniferous forests you do not see the sweeping view of color that you would see back east but pockets of intense color amidst all the green. And along the stream and river banks where more deciduous material thrives as well as the undergrowth.

Acer microphyllum.

Rain pond. It will be full in a few weeks.

Firefall maple with Joe Witt in the background.

A few more highlights from an evening walk in the university arboretum tonight

Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium'

Stewartia pseudocamellia

Cotinus obovatus

Cotinus 'Grace'

Bedford PA:

Sugar maple:

YellowWood:

Sassafras pair:

Magnolias generally don't make these types of threads, so I'll give a shoutout to M. sieboldii.

Cryptomeria japonica 'Elegans Viridis' just starting to turn plum purple. It is green during the Summer. Acer palmatum from seed are turning a nice red.

We finally had a freeze last night and it was hard. There’s a whole lot of this today:

Not great pics (the cheap phone & light conditions), but at least alot of orange -- first pondcypress:

Then baldcypresses:

maackia - your hard freeze migrated here (we had a sustained 28F overnight), and the maple leaves are raining down this morning. But my Emerald City tuliptree is holding onto most of its leaves:

Talk about maple leaves raining down.......was a bit blustery here overnight and the native bigleaf maples surrounding my garden have been dropping leaves like crazy! And it doesn't take many to cover the lawn - and everything else - when each leaf is 12-18" across!!

please allow me to store this here.. in case the post i did ... doesnt show up on the list ... so then i can recreate it later .... thx and sorry .... please dont respond to this here ... the post title will be the tree name ...

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Aesculus x carnea 'O'Neill Red'

got a nice crop of nuts ....

instead of waiting until mid january in the frozen north .... i figure i will do something now.. while they are fresh ...

my idea... is to pot them all in a 5 gal pot with moist media ... and put them on the north side of the house.. and let ma nature take care of everything ... this entails the lowest odds of me screwing it all up ... lol ...

whats your opinions or ideas?

what do you figure will the the end result of the flowers.. should i somehow get them to live for ten years ... and good luck with that ... lol ..

will they be as red as the mother plant ... speculate.. as i do understand its all in the genetics ... whether it self pollinated ... or whatever ... etc ...

pretty cool... one husk had 3 nuts in it ... sorry.. no pix ... wonder if they would be genetic triplets???

not many other posts.. so may as well talk this topic to death .... lol ..

ken

arbordave, your tuliptree has held on to its leaves longer than mine....

Wonderful, luminous yellows (hickories, tuliptrees, beech & sugar maples) in the mountains here yesterday, but couldn't stop while driving. Some black oaks coloring yellow -- rare for oaks.

The Liriodendron look good this year.

Close up of pondcypress -- ORANGE!

Fall color, in general, wasn't that great where I live. Too much rain, overnight temps staying too warm, too many cloudy days, too much leaf fungus....probably many factors. That said, most of the sugar maples around here all seem to turn the same light, light orangey-yellow. And it's not all that vibrant some years. Plus the old windbreaks and forest patches are filled with mostly green ash, boxelder, bur oak, and American elm. A lot of ruddy, dirty yellow usually. If it weren't for Autumn Blaze maple and Amur maple, there'd be very little reddish fall color in the landscape. Even most of the local northern red oaks turn yellow instead of red. The soil changes greatly if you drive 15 minutes west or north and so does the fall color usually.

So here's some nursery color:

Had some nice fall color before the snow started to fly!

Stuff is pretty small at my place so I have some things mixed in from the a couple parks I visited.

Seven Son

Wild Sugar Maple

Northern Glow

Acer truncatum

Ginkgo Chi Chi

Emperor One

Shaved Chocolate

Autumn Fantasy

Fire Dragon

North Wind

Black Chokeberry

Pines can have fall color too!

Frontier Elm

Another North Wind

These pictures were taken before our first freeze and the snow yesterday. Sorry I don’t have names.

A couple more- hope they post straight

Sugar maples in old fields that didn't get fertilized all year always color better than those that were pampered. (Also fixed my post from further back.)

I always see the best color when I am driving somewhere and there's no time or spot to pull over and take a pic.

Whaas - Frontier elm has really nice fall color. Purple?! Who knew?

Yes its long lasting and resists light freezes - apprantley down to 26 degrees! Sometimes it transitions to a nice red.

Bald Cypress near Seattle in my garden.......and a coupla Japanese maples. The rain pond is not full yet.

It was 24 last night. I thought the little fellow would have been hit harder. Probably about it for the year though. Its gonna be time to show off bark and trunk!

Not any color here anymore but I couldn't help taking this picture of the sun breaking over a lane in the woods on my place in the country.

I like using busses for scale :)

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