Fall Colors 2016 - Post 'em up!

[thumblessprimate1]

Maples are really coloring up now. Soon it will be all over. But I will finally get to see the naked truth!

I like the way the Amur looks bare and next to the Japanese maple in red. I think I can smell autumn and feel the cool air; something we don't have down here yet.

 

[JoeR]

Only have four trees change so far: American Hornbeam, ginkgo, pomegranate, and bald cypress (which had AMAZING fall color that I didnt get a picture of!).

Its so purdy! If only it didnt have brown mixed in...

 

[Carol 83]

Thread didn't specify outdoor fall color.

 

[aml1014]

Thread didn't specify outdoor fall color.View attachment 122059

That it did not.
My desert rose always blooms when night time Temps are in the 40s.
Technically it's still outside, just in the greenhouse
My orchid is almost there

Aaron

 

[Carol 83]

That it did not.
My desert rose always blooms when night time Temps are in the 40s.
Technically it's still outside, just in the greenhouse View attachment 122062
My orchid is almost there

Aaron

I've had one of those for 4 years and the damn thing has never bloomed! Congrats!

 

[Carol 83]

November 2nd and 80 degrees. I'm sure the shoe will drop soon, but...

 

[ml_work]

My trees are not doing good enough to post pictures and really most trees are just starting to change here in Alabama. These pictures are from fall 2011 (11-5-2011). This is a few of many, it was one of those days that seemed everything I pointed the camera at was good. I may have posted these before....

 

[ml_work]

I tried again in 2012 and took many pictures but it just did not happen like the year before, like a second movie that just did not have it. But I have to include these 2 pictures. You can see the old train bridge (still in use) and get an idea of the height it was taken from. I had walked up the new bridge to take the picture, plenty wide and a full emergency lane on each side. It still did not change the fact I am scared of heights and it is HIGH. As I walked up I was excited about taking the pictures, scared but not too bad. Well as I was looking down the river just clicking away I did not notice the traffic behind me (as I said full unused lane that I was on) never saw the 18 wheeler LOG truck coming. When it went by the bridge did as it was designed to with expansion about every 10-20 feet, it MOVED as the truck past. I froze in place and pictured me sitting down Indian squat and waiting till a fire truck could rescue me like a cat in a tree. So now I had to walk back down the bridge and could see a long way down the highway, watching for another log truck, thinking what will I do if I see one coming.. I prayed the entire time... No Log truck LORD, No Log truck. Made it back to my truck with out any traffic coming until I got to it.

 

[ml_work]

This is my wife's plant, she had many of these and give them away each year. Last winter killed all of the ones she had and this one grew from seed this summer. She calls them Angel Trumpet, they bloom at night and make it a day or two, in summer they wilt the same day. The bloom is not as big as the past years (I have many pictures of the other years) but it bloomed.. sitting on the deck saying "hey I bloomed for you and now you don't take my picture!" So I took some of this one, I think they are Beautiful, the texture and swirls are amazing.

 

[davetree]

Japanese maple in the morning light. This one was a deep red color for a month until just a few days ago, then it turned bright red.

 

[LanceMac10]

Color on that Maple is bangin'!!!!!!!

Nice!!!!!

 

[twisted trees]

A couple of trees still in training.

 

[twisted trees]

View attachment 122135 Japanese maple in the morning light. This one was a deep red color for a month until just a few days ago, then it turned bright red.

Very nice.

 

[twisted trees]

A couple more.

 

[Don Blackmond]

ginkgo chichi

 

[Don Blackmond]

couple shishigashira

 

[coh]

Some more fall color...the theme is red.

1. Stewartia pseudocamellia. Yard tree (though I've tried several layers, all have failed to root). These are fantastic, great fall color, nice bark, beautiful flowers in late spring.



2. Close up of stewartia foliage.



3. Arakawa maple foliage. The tree itself isn't much to look at yet, lots of work ahead of it. But nice color.



4. Ilex serrata berries. I took 3 layers off a larger plant last summer (this is one of them), and one this year. Plan is to put them together as a group. Still need to get another layer off the main plant.



5. Shishigashira maple. This one almost overnight turned from green to a neon orange-red that the camera doesn't fully capture, pretty amazing. Another tree that is in early stages, started from an air layer last year.

 

[coh]

One more for now, this is a small Korean hornbeam clump that I put together a couple of years ago with seedlings from Matt Ouwinga. I'm allowing it to pretty much run wild for now, to build up some size...so you can't really see much of the trunks (I think there are 7 in there). I thought the contrasting colors, with some parts that were still green and others yellow through red, made a nice image.

 

[aml1014]

RASTA VITEX! Lol

Aaron

 

[M. Frary]

Tamaracks.