Foliage - what's it like where you are?
Sep 30th, 2012, 01:31 PM
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Foliage - what's it like where you are?
Just went up to Schenectady from the city by way of Hyde Park and then back. You can see the occasional gold coming in and a very few small bursts of red. The deep greens of summer are sure fading. Hills in the distance look like broccoli you might have kept too long.
Wish I could go back in a few weeks........
What's it like where you are?
Wish I could go back in a few weeks........
What's it like where you are?
That is one thing I really miss from our time in upstate NY. Here we get a few yellows and some orange, but it is so muted by comparison.
Sep 30th, 2012, 02:32 PM
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OK, we've had an ongoing heat wave here in L.A. that has screwed up our fall foliage -- what we have of it, that is.
Everything is still nice and green. The citrus trees don't change color. The trees in our backyard dropping the most leaves right now are the magnolia and the avocado trees, but neither changes color -- they just go green to brown, then drop. Bumper crop of avocados this year, but most still in the maturing process. Serious bumper crop of limes this year as well.
The apples on the apple trees are the only things changing color, from green to red, other than the persimmons that generally turn from green to orange just before Halloween.
Everything is still nice and green. The citrus trees don't change color. The trees in our backyard dropping the most leaves right now are the magnolia and the avocado trees, but neither changes color -- they just go green to brown, then drop. Bumper crop of avocados this year, but most still in the maturing process. Serious bumper crop of limes this year as well.
The apples on the apple trees are the only things changing color, from green to red, other than the persimmons that generally turn from green to orange just before Halloween.
Oct 1st, 2012, 02:44 AM
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Quite a bit of color in the Concord NH area. DH thinks it's only 40 percent so far but there's a lot of swamp maples around our house which color early. Some have bright red branches here and there but the rest of the tree is green. The color that is starting in the rest of the tree is more of a pinky red. This is kind of unusual. In true swamp areas, the trees are all red.
We had a rainy weekend but the sun started coming out late in the day. It's possible that today is going to be spectacular but looks like a warm week. We didn't get a light frost in mid-Sept like we usually do and the moon is almost full again.
We had a rainy weekend but the sun started coming out late in the day. It's possible that today is going to be spectacular but looks like a warm week. We didn't get a light frost in mid-Sept like we usually do and the moon is almost full again.
Oct 1st, 2012, 04:38 AM
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Here is what it is like in my old state of Oregon:
http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...all-colors.cfm
Colorado and other parts of the West are also beautiful this time of year.
http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...all-colors.cfm
Colorado and other parts of the West are also beautiful this time of year.
Oct 1st, 2012, 04:48 AM
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A bit more on Colorado - as we were in Colorado Springs a few years ago for an AF Academy reunion of mine, and we drove up Pikes Peak and the fall colors were just outstanding.
We later drove up the center of the state - which also had some beautiful foliage - to The Summit - Frisco/Breckinridge/Keystone - and my wife took numerous pics but these pages will have to suffice for the moment:
http://www.examiner.com/article/fall...-part-1-by-car
http://www.colorado.com/articles/asp...foliage-drives
We later drove up the center of the state - which also had some beautiful foliage - to The Summit - Frisco/Breckinridge/Keystone - and my wife took numerous pics but these pages will have to suffice for the moment:
http://www.examiner.com/article/fall...-part-1-by-car
http://www.colorado.com/articles/asp...foliage-drives
Oct 2nd, 2012, 02:22 PM
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BTW - local fall color here in SD is getting another nice bloom of roses, and the new ones I planted over the summer are all doing well. Double Delight #3 is just doing great, as is Mr. Lincoln #3, the two Kordes Perfectas as well, Secret, Sweet Surrender, Elle, Abraham Darby (a David Austin English Rose), Oklahmoma #2, Firefighter, Fragrant Clouds 1 & 2 have all bloomed at least once - and just this morning - I/weput Perfume Delight in the ground. She is a daughter of the most famous rose in the world - Peace, and hadn't planned to dig another big rose hole (getting a little late in the year) but won her at the local SD Rose Society meeting last week, so hey - gotta do what ya gotta do.
Again,San Diego doesn't have much of a fall foliage/change of seasons panorama - but there are other benefits.
Again,San Diego doesn't have much of a fall foliage/change of seasons panorama - but there are other benefits.
Oct 3rd, 2012, 08:08 AM
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Well we're definitely being held up since we haven't had any really cool weather yet - never mind the killing frost you usually need to get the best colors. Still warm (75 today) and lots of showers.
