Acorns have color. I used my leaf-blower to clear the driveway, just 3 hours ago. Bumper crop, this year. This also color. The wet year combined with extended summer temps, has resulted in one confused rhododendron. I hope the entire Bush isn't getting ready to bloom.
Winterberries are showing off. Leaf colors are muted this year. There's this red maple just off the deck.
We’ve had very little outstanding colors in Western PA this year. I love going on fall drives to check out the changing colors, but there is very little to see in my neck of the woods. Here’s to Hoping.
That's interesting as we hardly had any acorns this year. The last two years saw an insane amount of acorns but barely anything this season. I wonder if the gypsy moth caterpillar blight had anything to do with it.
No real GM problem in my general area, this year or last. The wet spring and summer helps to keep them in check.
Went for a walk to the swamp edge today and the Fall red maple color is about the worst I've ever seen. Swamp maples just a very drab yellow. What was left, the trees were rather blown out from the wind earlier . They're usually first to drop anyway. Oak leaves are turning partly dull brown, falling off and then finish turning on the ground. Everything seems to be a drab yellow or dull brown.
I’m definitely feeling like we got cheated this year with fall colors. It stayed above average temperature wise well into October, and just as it cooled off, this week’s storm tore a lot of leaves off the trees. Still there were a few nice displays here and there. Here’s my backyard as of this afternoon. The large red maple is starting to show off, and the hickories are turning a brilliant yellow. The sugar maples are mostly yellow this year too, although in different places I’ve seen some with orange or red. Oaks are still pretty green for the time being, as are the tulip poplars. The yellow and black birches have shed their golden leaves for the most part.
Probably have another week+ until it peaks here in SE TN. Which is crazy because 10 years ago it would have been in full peak color. Crazy how that is changing.
Last weekend the leaves were mostly down, but fall colors nonetheless. Beaver Pond Red Osier and old Cat Sunset looking from our cabin down toward my garden. There is a red phase ruffed grouse male in fill display in the middle of the photo. This grouse is one of our yard birds that hang out at the feeders and eat clover in our yard.
On a recent trip to Alabama (mid Oct) the sweet gum, sumac and persimmon were showing good color... Going up through the mountains this coming weekend to Knoxville. Maybe ww will see some pretty colors there.
