Parrotia persica 'Vanessa'. I planted this one about a month ago.

So I think this ornamental grass is Molina caerulea....or is it one of the more "autumn colorful" Panicums?

And yet another Acer palmatum with beautiful Quercus garryana behind. If I had the energy I would walk my neighborhood for three hours every day in October/November. Cool, cloudy weather and endless fall color is my happy place.

Lion Head maple.

Acer triflorum

Acer Northern Spotlight

Acer Ice Dragon

Shot up the side yard

I like that Ice Dragon! I’ve already lost one, but that convinces me I need to try again.

Beautiful pictures. ArtinNature- is that acer a waterfall or viridis ? Your Shishigashira is very good. Vanessa is great too. My vanessa interestingly is all red/orange. Great Icedragon- i dont find the icedragon in nurseries in the east coast..

Artinnature- you live in a magical place. love all the acers!

Poor color this year, but the afternoon sun here accentuated the pale yellow of the 60 ft tall, 20 yr old honeylocust with longleaf pine at left getting crowded by it. The usually reliable shellbark hickory at right just got browned by the freezes.

AJ - It could be one of those (some people say they're the same) it was green in summer.

Here's another Parrotia persica in my neighborhood.

Here is one of the larger A.p. Shishigashiras (Lion's Head, or Mane) in the neighborhood. We've been admiring it all spring and summer (it is my wife's favorite JM). Recently we've noticed the back part is much smaller growing than the front. It has finally started to turn color (it's one of the latest to turn) and the difference is even more pronounced. I was wondering if one of them was 'O jishi', the male form of Shishigashira, but online research doesn't seem to support that theory.

Mediocre colors here, but a couple northern red oaks that normally color late show up here across the road.

Handsome pond pine (close relative to loblolly) shows better when surrounding trees are bare. 'Kreider' bur oak to left.

For the last 5 or so years we have put some netting over this pond as it has a big leaf maple right above it.

No really, there is a pond under there.

Oh yeah, there it is.

Color getting scarce here so thought I'd better get out today and get the last of it.

Ilex Verticillata berries holding up good after repeated freezes (I've already stolen a few branches).

Physocarpa O. Monlo (today):

Generally, more red other years and like others have stated, many leaves have fallen before peak color occurred. (Spirea on the far left).

Cornus sericea: Fall and Winter interest up here (stole some twigs from this one already too).

Ostrya Virginiana: Marcescent leaves are its second kind of Fall colors.

Acer Pseudosieboldianum: Another Marcescent (only way this one was going to make the Fall color thread lol).

Juniperus Horizontalis 'Blue Rug'.

I added a dozen or so Tulip bulbs inside the lawn ring, so we'll get a spring color splash also. ;-)

Even got my Christmas pots done already.

All my trimmings (Red Dogwood, Pine, Spruce, Juniper and some winterberries) came from my own yard this year. The Birch made me go out into the country again, darn it. :-)

Taxus canadensis is just beginning to 'Winter Bronze'.

Acer palmatum (Dissectum Atropurpureum, probably) that was existing in the front garden, has finally turned!

Nice pond pine, beng!

I caught a 'Fall Moment' a few weeks ago, with the afternoon sun shining through on the pine needle mulch bed, that's under the Ponderosa Pine that resides in the pine grove.

This may be the largest Laceleaf Japanese maple I've seen in my area (I believe it's 'Viridis'), in a friend's backyard, not too far from my location (all photos today 11/6/25):

Not much color left in my own yard, and wintry weather is supposed to arrive this weekend :( One of my Fothergillas still has some red tones (you can see a portion of my Nanking Chrysanthemum to the right, a little past peak bloom):

This is the upper half of my Heptacodium (photo this morning 11/6/25), planted in the fall of 2003, now over 25' high and wide. I originally thought I'd be OK planting it under the wires ;)

That JM is Huge!

Thanks, dave!

@arbordave (SE MI), huge Japanese maple and brilliant color!

The huge maple trees in our property

The Japanese maple start to turn brigjt red. In a couple weeks it will be all red

Oak trees

Loquat in bloom

Camellias start blooming and will soon be covered with flowers

I’m glad I got this photo last night at around sunset – it is 29 degrees here this morning and it’s a different picture altogether. Nice dogwood and hydrangea colors.

A guerilla-planted European beech from OIKOS (when it was still operating). Sulked in deep shade at first, but improved eventually. Colors very late and so far is completely marcescent in winters. Hoping the latest bad beech diseases don't find it.

Another shot of my JM from the street....with friends. And Parrotia persica Persian Spire.

Parrotia subaequalis is having its last hurrah. To the left, you can just make out the wispy, still green branches of my other Larix hybrid. To the right is the now enormous trunk of Taxodium T502. It was a little whip in 2012, now it's almost as wide at the base as my 'Ogon', though only about 2/3 as tall. The 'Ogon' is 2 years older...still, both are very fast.

This is Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium' with Taxodium 'LaNana' (T406), that won't start turning until December. The LaNanas haven't been as fast growing as the Banita, but this could well be because the sites are less optimal.

Fagus 'Dawyck Gold' with Camellia 'Survivor'

Lindera angustifolia

Callicarpa kwangtungensis is looking good this year.

Lastly, Erica 'Kramer's Rote' has started flowering way earlier than normal, probably because of the strange rainfall patterns this year. (wet June & July, driest August ever, almost normal September, very dry October)

UBG, interested to know what your T502, T406 mean for the baldcypresses, as a baldcypress aficionado and grower. Mine grow in a bed of wet, floodplain rocks with hardly any soil. Don't grow fast like yours, but are perfectly healthy. My same-age pondcypresses in good soil are much taller.

PS The baldcypresses hold that floodplain area tightly together w/no erosion, while the other side of the stream is eroding. This was one of the purposes.

Ben, they are the hybrids that the Chinese government created between bald cypress and montezuma cypress. (the evergreen one native to Mexico)

https://www2.conifersociety.org/blogpost/2082607/490092/Taxodium-Update-by-David-Creech

They have really remarkable late and prolonged fall color. They don't start to turn until < 30F freezes starts, and then hold until lows start regularly hitting < 20F. So they can look like this for almost a month in idea conditions. I imagine in parts of Texas they sometimes look like this for the whole winter, but I don't really know.

Hybridity inducing this kind of 'prolonged super fall - winter color' seems to cross even clades, much less genus and family. It's also seen on my Mexican-American dogwood hybrid*, which is just peaking now even though most dogwoods are almost done, and the Viburnum 'Moonlit Lace' I mentioned elsewhere. Its dead leaves were red and mostly alive looking all of last winter. The plant seemed to suffer little ill effect and happily shed and regrew new ones in the spring.

This pic is T406 in late December a few years ago.

* - I tried to release this by sending to a grafter in the PNW. Alas, I never heard back about them. There are likely other such hybrids because for a while Camforest sold open pollinated C. urbiniana seedlings, but this one has a number of desirable qualities.

Last gasps of color from over the weekend as snow showers began today and we're expecting to dip into the low 20's tonight.

Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Mohawk':

Cotinus 'Ancot' continuining to put on a show, with an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colors over the course of nearly 3 weeks now:

Cotinus 'Grace' just hitting its stride now. This is all less than 4 months' worth of new growth, since I gave it a severe cut-back in mid June after a windstorm flattened it.

Filbert

Pagoda dogwood

Ginkgo with serviceberry behind

Three days later

tj

Diospyros kaki Fuyu Jiro (Persimmon) -- my second to last variety to develop fall color (excepting blueberries, some of which are still green). The last to color will be Pseudocydonia sinensis (Chinese Quince) which is tardily deciduous in this climate. It might be green for much of the winter, we shall see.

Two shots from different angles of this Japanese maple (unknown cultivar) with the sun streaming behind it.

In this one you can just make a crescent moon above the bare big leaf maple.

Rose ”Rise Up Lilac Days” blooming against the maple leaves

Pink Cloud camellia

Straught species Acer palmatum changing late but brilliant in my shade garden

Vaccinium x 'Chandler'.

Still have winterberries. ;-)

11-17-25:

I had somehow forgotten about my Calycanthus floridus Burgundy Spice lately. I bought one because the fall color on the plant at dancingoaks.com was spectacular. It has been changing very stealthily from the burgundy-black of summer to what you see here. I'm very happy with this plant so far.

This Constellation Dogwood seems to be holding its leaves a bit later than normal (IIRC), and is still showing some dark reddish tones (11/19/25):

A couple mature Bradford Pears on a nearby property (11/19/25). I'm surprised the wet snow we had last week didn't bring any branches down:

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Sally's Red'. My little tree grew in spring as usual, then grew again (rapidly!) in autumn. All of the spring foliage turned brown and crispy....and this is a selection of the foliage that grew in autumn.

I think it is the Bloodgood Maple, turning bright red now

Pink Snow camellia drops a pile of petals after the heavy rain

Witchhazel still going

artinnaturez8b sorry 18 days ago you asked if a grass was a Molinia c. and I would say yes.

Here was my Molinia c. Karl Foerster a couple of weeks ago. It is about 8 ft. when in "bloom".

David, interesting that your hybrid baldcypresses are coning, but my 13 seed-grown, 20 yr old ones have yet to cone/flower. And yet both my same-age pondcypresses have coned. Both species when coning show nascent male catkins in the winter (look like left-over leaves on stem ends) and bloom VERY early.

I keep overlooking plants in my garden that had not yet colored...but I'm not complaining 😉.

Acer x oliverianum 'Hot Blonde'. She is a hybrid of Acer oliverianum × Acer shirasawanum 'Aurem'.

The plant had unexpectedly excellent and long-lasting spring foliage color, then settled down to light green for the summer. She showed no signs of fall color until the third week of November!

And this is what we have today. The red (malting?) on the yellow-orange background is striking.

So these might be my last fall color photos of 2025...or not.

Acer x oliverianum 'Hot Blonde'

Update: acquired!

I like how the stems of this Hypericum pseudohenryi have a rainbow effect going.

Acer x oliverianum 'Hot Blonde' 🍁 how gorgeous!

Blueberry shrub

Well, white is a color. There’s a juniper under that foot of snow we got Saturday.

tj

Rhododendron 'Arneson Gem'...an Exbury Hybrid.

I’m a bit envious of those who still have some color. My native Witch-hazel is still showing the yellow-gold flowers, but that may end tonight with an expected low of -5F.

Forever_a_newbie, are you in z8 Virginia? I would not have guessed any part of VA to be quite that mild. Is that a species Vaccinium or a hybrid? Impressive!

@maackia, I am in Yorktown VA. I bought 4 blueberry plants from a local nursery maybe 10 years ago and lost all tags. They are differnt varieties and all bear well except birds always take the berries before us. The one shown above is the reddest. The others are not so, one is almost defoliated already

The reddest is planted close to 2 loquat trees by the shed. Much less frost on the ground

Loquat trees have a lot of flowers still

Well here we go again. Hydrangea quercifolia 'Gatsby Moon' just keeps giving and giving. We've only had one minor freeze (30.4F on December 1st) which didn't harm anything in my garden, and right now it's 60F. I posted in a Hydrangeas thread that GM was re-blooming in fall. It never did bloom though, you can see the buds in these photos. It will be interesting to see if they survive winter and bloom in spring. You can also see my little Camellia 'Yuletide' blooming in the background.

I know a lot of you back east have endured some rough weather over the summer and again this late autumn. You have my sympathies, but we will probably get ours here in Cascadia before long....probably in the form of damaging ice storms.