Beautiful Foliage

I was outside on the lanai inspecting my hoyas for upcoming blooms and instead took notice to the gorgeous color changes in foliage that had occured in the past few months. Has anyone else been pleasantly surprised by this? Why does this happen in the winter when the sun is further away than summer time? I would think that the sweltering Florida sunshine would cause this during those months but no...it waited until the day have shortened and the nights were chilly.

H cominsii

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H. hellwigiana

H merilli

H montana

H nicholsonii

clone of H. bordenii

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H sp. 910307

Beautiful!! And, you just gave me some names to add to my David Liddle order ^_^

Wow, they are beautiful!!!!! I have no idea why during winter. I have mine indoors, so they tend to stay the same color year long.
Congratulatios they are very pretty.
Lourdes =)

I've heard that cold weather does it.

Joni, are most of those you pictured above in the same species section/complex ? They all look very similar, except for a couple of course.

Paula