Acer japonicum.
Fall foliage photos
So nice to see everyone's lovely fall colors. My many tree leaves all were frozen mid-October except the birch and they are falling fast. So I am really enjoying my trip via DG to see nice fall color.
Thanks, Donna
Very nice....
those are beautiful Viburnum! Course now I'm singing 'stand on tippy toes....' hahaha
those are spectacular, VV. super color....
Caught my Kwanzan Cherry for the first time. I'm really bad, I never noticed it's fall color before. Notice also the trees behind it. Do you think we get a little westerly winds out here? I have a crooked, wild fence row of self-sown, Ashes. The farmer probably isn't too happy that I let the trees take over. He looses a row of corn every year. The DOA came out and checked the trees for Ash borers, so far so good.
Right on both, Viburnum Valley. The 'October Glory' maples are about the only colorful trees left in Central Indiana this week. They sure are striking!
We've been having a wonderful Indian Summer in our area, like much of the midwest, I imagine.
I took a November stroll through my yard this past weekend and took a bunch of pix of fall color.
Here are the ones I thought were the nicest.
First is acer palmatum Koto Ito Komachi, a thread-leaf variety.
Great JM photos, Weerobin. How many JMs do you have?
I don't know anymore, maybe 25 or so, combining a palmatum / japonicum / shirasawarum, etc.
I lost about 60-70% of the acer palmatums in the devastating late spring frost a couple years ago.
I lost several 10+ ft fairly mature JM's, as well as a bunch of smaller ones.
It was so heartbreaking, I haven't planted another palmatum since then.
The japonicums and shirasawarums fared much better, so I guess I'll stick with them.
This message was edited Nov 10, 2009 7:37 PM
That was a nasty late freeze here in Indianapolis, too. I lost two large 'Bloodgood' JMs, but a large 'Crimson Queen' that got killed back to what I thought was a complete loss actually sprouted from the main branches and now looks great again. The odd thing with this plant though is that it doesn't hold its red color as well during the summer like it used to. Very strange. Same location, etc. but it's like it's a different plant!
Your area was surely "more along" than we were, so the damage must have been even more severe than here.
Sad memories for sure. It does look like you still have a wonderful collection!
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