I've had some beautiful fall colors this year. I thought I'd post some of my favorites from this fall.
Who else has has fall colors to share?
I planned to post 5 or 6 photos, but I found it hard to trim down my list, so indulge me...
First up is Chinese pistaschio (Pistacia chinensis)
Stewartia pseudocamellia
Liquidamber styraciflua Worplesdon.
I wish I had a clearer picture.
The variation of colors is truely kaleidoscopic!
Hamamelis x intermedia Jelena
Acer oliverianum
A threadleaf japanese maple, A palmatum Koto Ito Komachi.
Another JM, a palmatum dissectum Waterfall.
Fothergilla gardenii.
A seedling acer palmatum.
Acer japonicum Aconitifolium.
Acer shirasawarum Palmitifolium.
Acer japonicum Green Cascade.
And finally, the tried and true, acer rubrum.
Thanks for letting me share some of my fall pictures from this year.
I detect an inveterate and irretrievable Acer assembler...
I can add a few, though the color season has been rather truncated due to the persistent drought conditions since early August.
My one Acer palmatum, a Don Shadow selection...
Guilty as charged.
But I throw in a few alternatives for variety sake.
Here's something different - Taxodium mucronatum, Montezuma Bald-cypress...
Yet more different: a "wallflower" during most of the year, Eastern Wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus) lays its claim to the landscape in the fall. The birds often take its colorful "hearts aburstin'" fruit rather quickly, but it slowly reveals its true colors hidden in the foliage - this year pretty late in mid November.
Traditional, yet awe-inspiring when well-done...
Acer saccharum, our hometown Sugar Maple.
One more oft-overlooked, but among the most serviceable of plants mid-continent...
Rhus aromatica, the inimitable Fragrant Sumac.
Wow, that cypress looks great.
Is it hardy for you? I thought it was more tender.
I have taxodium ascendens and distichum, which have nice but more subtle fall color.
My taxodium ascendens abruptly dropped all it's leaves this weekend.
Quite an apron of foliage underneath it.
I have been growing this tree from a seedling I received in the mid/late 1990s. It hasn't had to tolerate a true zone 5b winter (last occurrence - 1994, when we reached -28F), though it has taken on two severe ice storms and come back strong.
With the ease of acquistion and growing Taxodium distichum and Taxodium ascendens, I don't think anyone bothers to try this species. It helps to have a seedling from a parent already growing northward. This came from Steve Bieberich of Oklahoma, who is always pushing tough drought tolerant plants.
Weerobin, your JM's are beautiful! The striations of color are awesome. And, Viburnum, I love how the Eastern Wahoo's leaves are transparant. Delicate and gorgeous! Here is Ninebark (physocarpus) 'Summer Wine' . . .
Barberry in front of Ninebark (the screen on the ground is covering newly planted bulbs so the critters don't get 'em!) . . .
Viburnum dentatum 'Blue Muffin' (and a 'golden foliaged' retriever to the right - little Briana!) . . .
And . . . don't laugh . . . a sapling Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Forest Prince'. He's small, but mighty! I planted him from bareroot this spring and he's grown very well. And, the few little leaves he's hung onto have turned a brilliant red!
I don't have any leaves left on my euonymus, but there are still a few hearts a-bustin!
This message was edited Nov 14, 2010 4:56 PM
This message was edited Nov 14, 2010 4:56 PM
Despite rumors otherwise, you don't have to be a maple to have beautiful fall color.
Here's a parottia.
Asian hornbeam.
Oak.
We of the Hamamelidaceae don't listen to those kinds of rumors. Heck - we can just start our own!
Here's Fothergilla 'Mt. Airy' showing off...
Even viburnums can have fall color!!
A burkwood viburnum also.
Green is a fall color, too!
So says 'Eskimo'...
But, there are so many Hamamelis, and so little time...
Here's a great big Common Witch Hazel, belting it out.
Gingko biloba 'dingaling' at night
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Ginkgo biloba 'saratoga'
Metasequoia 'miss grace'
How about a seedling of Quercus dentata?
Wow, great shot!
Slightly off the subject, I had a small q. dentata pinnatifida - just a couple years old.
The Missouri Dept of Conservation contacted me from a list of people who purchased plants from a nursery found to have some sort of plant pathogen. They came out, tested my oak and confiscated it last summer. I don't recall it having any significant fall color, but I still liked the disssected foliage.
Thanks for the show, reminding me I 'have to' get a Fothergilla and a Witch hazel, well, also need this:
Oakleaf hydrangea
This message was edited Nov 28, 2010 11:04 PM
