Fall Color: It’s not just for New England!

Fall is the most wonderful time of the year (in my humble opinion). Every year the colors are a little bit different. Read read about the how’s and why’s of fall color in blog

Plant Trees in Fall!

Now is a great time to plant trees and shrubs that produce gorgeous fall colors.  My website has been updated to contain information on how to plant trees, visit Landscape Gardening: Planting a Tree. There you’ll learn that most trees don’t need staking, unless you plant them in a very windy area (for windy areas, stake trees for one year). If a tree can’t make it without a stake when it’s young, chances are it won’t support itself later in life.

Recommended Trees

Here are some of my favorite trees and shrubs. Remember, even though a color is listed, the plant may not always turn that color every year. It all depends on the temperature. Underlined plants have links to more details written earlier in a blog dedicated to that plant. In the future I plan to write about each kind of tree. Please feel free to leave a comment if there is one you are particularly interested in, and I’ll try and get to it next.

SMALL TREES (to 30′ high)

• Birch (Betula species) gold
• Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) red, purple, orange, gold
• Japanese Maple (Acer japonicum) red, purple, orange, gold
• Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis) red, purple, orange, gold
• Washington Thorn (Crataegus phaenopyrum) red, purple, orange, gold
• Western Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) gold

MEDIUM TREES 30-60′

• Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) gold
• Liquidambar or Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) red, purple, orange, gold
• Chinese Flame Tree (Koelreuteria bipinnata) gold, with orange & red seed pods
• Flowering Pear (Pyrus species)
• Ash (Fraxinus species)
• Red Maple (Acer rubrum) ‘Autumn Fantasy,’ ‘October Glory,’ ‘Autumn Blaze’ etc. red, purple, orange, gold

LARGE TREES 60’+

• London Plane Tree (Platanus x acerifolia) gold
• Sycamore (Platanus racemosa) gold
• Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) gold
• Oak (Quercus species) Red Oak-red, purple, orange, gold. Valley Oak-mostly gold

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