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)
Fall foliage 2010
Guilty as charged.
But I throw in a few alternatives for variety sake.
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.
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.
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.
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