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FALL COLOR THREAD - 2024

7 months ago

It's that time again, even though around here, it was a Fall with above normal temperatures, and we still have certain trees that have not colored as of today (Lindens and some Oaks). A hard frost tonight will change that.

I've had some trees already color and some that went from green to brown (Fraxinus nigra) because of such dry conditions. While everything didn't change 'In Concert' we had a few bright spots around here.


I'll start things out with one of mine that did exceptionally well this season.

Anyone else seeing any color in their area?

Post 'em if you got 'em. :-)


Acer rubrum:

:-)

Comments (124)

  • 6 months ago

    Umbrella magnolia never colors well, but the combo of some color and huge leaves is noteworthy. Fringe tree in front of it and nearly bare tuliptree right and behind.



    My second shellbark hickory. I read that they're shade tolerant and it's certainly proving it by shooting straight up (fast for a hickory) in quite shady conditions.




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  • 6 months ago

    Another pic of Autum Cascade - it was glowing neon in the morning shade.


    Next is Cornus florida ’Appalachian Spring’, new this year


    And finally a nearby streetscape with Gingko. My tree, 5 or 6 years in the ground, never looks like this! I remain hopeful.

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  • 6 months ago
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    Well, lost the Gingko pic…




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  • 6 months ago

    Sumac in the early morning

    Heptacodium late morning

    Sweetgum in the afternoon

    Corylus in the evening


    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked arbordave (SE MI)
  • 6 months ago

    I have a new video showing all of the fall color in my garden: youtube.com/@journeygarden


    This is Punica granatum 'Crimson Sky'

    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked artinnaturez8b
  • 6 months ago

    Cotinus obovatus and Nyssa 'Green Gable' at peak color here (both taken 2 days ago):



    Cotinus 'Grace' is just starting to color up and usually peaks in the first week of November unless we get a hard freeze before then:

    And a couple of our nice Amsonias for good measure:



    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked sah67 (zone 5b - NY)
  • 6 months ago

    sah67 - love Amsonia hubrichtii, especially combined with Cotinus obovatus!


    Acer x freemanii Autumn Blaze leaf on Mentha requienii.

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  • 6 months ago
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    Well, the photo glitch has been fixed, so ...



    Liquidambar



    Liriodendron



    Purple leaved Maple



    Ginkgo and Fraxinus



    Cercis



    Japanese Maple



    Hamamelis



    Swamp Cypress


    Sternbergia lutea

    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
  • 6 months ago


    This Celtis occidentalis across the street is a bright gold - picture doesnt do it justice. Once again, my own hackberry doesnt color this well. :/

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  • 6 months ago
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    Wow, floral, never seen baldcypress red like that -- mine and others I've seen always burnt orange. Color hangs on fairly long here, mine have good color for a least 10 days or more.



    Close cousin pondcypresses very similar -- closest one alittle late..


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  • 6 months ago

    Ice Dragon Maple finally decided to show some color

    And Ginkgos finally starting ro change with Apollo Sugar in the back


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  • 6 months ago
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    Ground under Chinese elm.


    Dawn redwood at 19 yrs old makes an appearance from crowded area.


    'Whiteshield' osage orange colors pretty well this year. Often leaves are just frozen.


    Like osage orange, 'Millwood x thornless' honeylocust colors pretty well this yr.


    Forked (purposely) northern catalpa looks like a scary Halloween tree.


    Umbrella magnolia.


    Volunteer silver maple had been cut down repeatedly, but always resprouted. Finally surrendered to its persistence and cut all the sprouts to one, and let it go. Coloring on silver maples is variable, but looks like this one is pretty good.


    That'll be enough for me. :)

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  • 6 months ago

    My Gleditsia triacanthos (honeylocust from seed), didn't turn colors all at once.

    Here it is early October, a day before a wind 'unhooked' it from its support line. Half yellow, half green as the leaves fell.

    The tree stayed reasonably upright so it's off for now.


  • 6 months ago

    Pictures taken 11-6-24:

    The spirea colored good albeit late for this area:

    Winterberry finally turning too.

    <continued below after getting blown out of my posting 3 times>

  • 6 months ago

    Bicolor oak, hophornbeam and #1 acer pseudosieboldianum have marcescent leaves.



    not much for color on the above maple.

  • 6 months ago

    #2 A. pseudosieboldianum out front dropped most of its leaves before I branch thinned it.

    Red osier dogwood stems turning bright red with all the cool weather we're having.

    And we can't forget the winter pots, just finished. I may add a few winterberrys to the mix. ;-)

    That's about it for me this season.

  • 6 months ago

    I rather liked this zany Ginkgo joining in with the market colour.


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  • 6 months ago


    And a repurposed mediaeval stone coffin.

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  • 6 months ago

    Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Mohawk'


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  • 6 months ago

    Takmukeyama Japanese Maple

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  • 6 months ago

    Recently planted hell strip in Brainerd MN.


  • 6 months ago

    Ginkgo turning as leaves are falling.

    Fothergilla is a nice gold color.

    tj

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  • 6 months ago


    Fall smell rather than Fall colour!

    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
  • 6 months ago

    Crimson Spire oak finally turning


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  • 6 months ago
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    Can't resist a couple more. Sourwood trying to be a tree instead of a shrub. About 10 ft tall.


    Shumard x 'some other' oak - guessing maybe hybrid with scarlet or nuttall oak. Leaves remain until spring (marcescent). This oak usually has issues w/frost damage in spring.


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  • 6 months ago

    Our much overdue rain due to start today & color seems the best it’s going to be this year - here’s my farewell to fall pics


    Lion’s Head Maple


    Ever Red on left / Harp String on right



    Virides (green maple)



    Crimson Queen


    Fire Glow - just planted in late July ’24 - darker purple leaves & branches appeared since planted.




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  • 6 months ago

    Another look at the crimson spire oak. We don’t always get a long enough fall for it to always change color this nicely


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  • 6 months ago

    I'm in Oxnard CA on Silver Strand, and everything looks like this here. I adore all plants though, so it's all good. There is an Echeveria in there though with some nice color. Hang Loose everybody!

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  • 6 months ago

    The last of the color for me, likely. My Gingko tends to hold on until frozen and then just drop. This is Acer x ’Cinnamon Flake’ which is unevenly going, but the sections are pretty as they go ;-)





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  • 6 months ago

    I picked up this sugar maple at a local nursery's end of year sale a number of years ago. It's always the last tree to color in my yard, this season a bit earlier than usual 11/9/24 (it is mostly leafless as of this morning 11/16).

    Same tree a few years ago on 21st of November

    Our fall weather has been favorable for this Rotundiloba Sweetgum in town. Most years its foliage stays green into late November - early December and freezes on the tree before any color develops. Photo yesterday (11/15/24)


    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked arbordave (SE MI)
  • 6 months ago

    5 days later, and the Cinnamon Flake maple is still looking good - although the top is bare. I think this tree has the nicest color in my yard.



    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked indianagardengirl
  • 6 months ago

    Winter interest (in the Fall). ;-)


  • 6 months ago
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    Bill - your winterberries have done well this year! With above average summer moisture my 'Winter Red' looks healthier than ever, but no snow here (yet) as a backdrop for a good photo.

    Some of the spindle trees in the area have fruited abundantly this fall (photo 11/18/24)


    BillMN-z-2-3-4 thanked arbordave (SE MI)
  • 6 months ago

    Joining late for the party. a wonderful treat to the eyes and soul. Thanks for the pictures

    Maples have the center stage

    Japanese maple

    The camellias after the night of gusting wind and rains

    Loquat trees start to set the fruits


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  • 6 months ago
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    Metasequoia 'Ogon' with a bit of Larix x marschlinsii.


    *UPDATE*


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok1XPpLoL_c

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  • 6 months ago

    David, thanks for the "Larch" madness. Much more interesting than March madness.

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  • 6 months ago
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    Thanks. It's a shame the video didn't mention - for European viewers - that larch trees can also be seen in the Alps.


    https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/comments/1g9pqcq/poschiavo_switzerland


    https://www.wanderwego.com/home/larch-hikes-switzerland

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  • 6 months ago
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    Plenty of larches here too, Larix decidua, although they're not native to the British Isles. Very common in forestry plantations.

    The sun came out today and we still have some fall colour.




    Fagus sylvatica, Beech.

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  • 5 months ago
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    Just got home to Oregon after our 26 day, 2600 mile tour of the west, and there is still a lot of color in my Willamette Valley garden. Hydrangea Zorro, Fothergilla Legend Of The Small, Hydrangea quercifolia Munchkin, Parrotia subaequalis, Cotinus obovatus, Acer japonicum Ed Wood.












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  • 5 months ago
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    More: Hydrangea Oregon Pride with Abutilon Dennis, Acer palmatum Ed Wood, Bracteantha Granvia Harvest Orange still going strong!












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  • 5 months ago
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    One more. We saw a lot of amazing gardens and landscapes on our tour, but I don't think there are many places that can achieve this incredible, classic PNW vignette...on November 24.


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  • 5 months ago

    I can expect that California, Oregon, and other PNW more benign climates may still have some fall foliage fracas going on.


    HOWEVER: you can still pull off a bit of frenzy here in the brutal Ohio River valley region at the end of November - and even at altitude in the unforgiving central Kentucky Bluegrass. Here is what is wrapping up (before last night's snow) at the Valley...


    This used to be called Kalopanax pictus; I suspect it has a re-name.


    Growing under and amongst Hackberry, Black Locust, and Bitternut Hickory in stupidly droughty conditions, this is an old test seedling maple from one of the bitter northern plains states research programs, South Dakota State University: Acer truncatum 'XPL Red Leaf'




    I will call this Yellow for the species involved - which isn't necessarily known to memorably glow. Tetradium daniellii is giving it the old college try on Rivalry Weekend...



    OK, at least they make a better account for themselves than Lonicera maackii...


    Kicking it up a notch are some Viburnum Valley volunteers: Viburnum prunifolium is quite prolific here, and I have more than a few individuals that are still handsomely clad in their fall finery.



    Another exotic but tough old buzzard - acquired from field grown plots on the frigid flats of northern IL/south central WI at Beaver Creek Nursery - is Heptacodium miconioides, offering its version of off-yellow. I am finding more than a couple seedlings in the vicinity of the original plant. At least I hope these are not suckering stems...


    Selections and seedlings of Viburnum dentatum are still providing highlights here. Arrowwood Viburnum (like Blackhaw Viburnum) are beloved by birds when in fruit, and they do all the work in depositing them around the property to provide unexpected delight this time of year. Not to mention innumerable naming opportunities...




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  • 5 months ago

    Not bright enough? Here are a few more.


    This is an oddball species that started out in the garage of @kevin_5 in St. Charles, IL. He decided it needed a permanent southern vacation, and sent it with me to the Valley about 20 years ago. It has died back twice in the most severe tests that central Kentucky can throw at it, but Lindera reflexa has shown pretty nice (late) fall color.




    Hanging in there - far too late, in my estimation - is Chionanthus virginicus var. henryi. This plant was contributed by the late Don Shadow when he was still running his container operation. It has tolerated full western exposure growing under oaks, and gives a bit of color here at the end of fall as the White Oak overhead purples out.



    A young Quercus rubra seedling putting down roots near the sinkhole provides a spark among the less flamboyant Honeylocust, Hackberry, and Black Walnut populating this area.



    Here's the last holdout next to the house: Hamamelis x intermedia 'Aphrodite'


    Lastly in this treatise is my champion for persistence: Parrotia subaequalis will retain color well into December, and marcescent leaves the rest of the winter. It absolutely sparkles when the sun shines, but still shows how intense its hues can be even on cloudy days.





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  • 5 months ago

    Wow, @ViburnumValley, just looked up your Parrotia Subaequalis. What an amazing tree. Chinese Ironwood. Wish I could grow it here in my Colorado Zone 5 . . . . Thanks for sharing.

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  • 5 months ago

    Tamukeyama JM under Royal Burgundy flowering cherry at my brother’s house


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  • 5 months ago

    VV - I wish my P subaequalis would color up that nicely. Mine has been a very dark burgundy, almost black. It is also much broader in habit than yours (photos from a couple days ago)


    A couple viburnum leaf photos - first a vigorous maple-leaf viburnum I rescued this past spring from a vacant lot in a new housing development

    And a Brandywine in the backyard (12/1/24)



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  • 5 months ago

    Most of these were taken in November. Hope you all don't mind some fall blooming flower pics to go along with the foliage =)












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  • 5 months ago

    Not at all John.

    The title says 2024 Fall Colors. :-)

  • 5 months ago

    Wintersweet is loaded with buds. They are expected to fully open around new year


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  • 5 months ago

    After a little warm spell, another round of color hit the neighborhood. Don't remember getting new color this late in the year before but glad it came.





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