It was really windy and rainy here yesterday, which took down a lot of the leaves on the big trees, but when I went out today I saw that the sheltered understory trees still look good!
I wasn’t thinking about fall colour when I planted these in a row, but I’m pleased with how they look together this time of year.
Red Kousa dogwood, yellow pawpaw, green hazelnut
dogwood again
Pawpaw
Please share your fall fruit tree photos!
I love the mottled early fall color of my pears, particularly the summercrisp. each leaf is a slightly different funky shade shade of red, orange, olive, yellow. Always reminds me of a spawning salmon. Apparently I didn’t take pic this year though.
Last year the Juicy Jewel asian pear had the same coloration, but this year it developed some weird fine stripey pattern on the leaves as it turned.
I love that my NHB blueberries are on fire. Here’s a few:
Autumn brilliance serviceberry. The contrasting colors and textures with the black lace elderberry has been beautiful since spring. There’s a red dogwood to the right of the black lace that makes it all the better (not pictured).
mine are all dropped now but the cherries and 1 one of my blueberries had the deepest red ive seen in awhile. funny how some years they have more color than others. only my elders and currants have leaves still. dont know why but my 2 siberian peach leaves are still green. so are the ones i planted at my sons. i dont remember when they colored and dropped last fall. my potato and walking onions stay green until it gets -0. tough plants. told the wife if we ever snow bird to the south im going to grow/ sell onions and garlic down there.
That’s interesting that your cherries turn red, what kind are they? Mine usually just drop when they’re green or sometimes go a bit yellow.
I finally got walking onions this year! Nice to hear the greens are so hardy. It sounds like they’ll be evergreen here, then, as long as the neighbour’s stupid cat stops eating them.
romance serries sour cherries. they dont always have great color but they do this year. deep red with some yellow.
Not much color here. Fruit trees are not that colorful with leaves from what I can see. At least in Z6 they aren’t.
Here is peach. But I prefer the stuff in the red.
Here is blueberry. It is colorful, but I only have a few, sickly ones left. Birds get almost of the output, even with netting they get under the netting.
Im growing blueberries in my front yard as a landacaping shrub for this reason. Beautiful fall color and fruit! Now if we could get people to replace burning bush with this…
maybe because im further north and colder? we also had mild drought this summer so that could contribute to them coloring up as well. i have my aronias in the front yard and they get nice red leaves also. out of my 6 blueberries, only 3 get that bright red. the others are a yellowish red.
Fantastic leaf coloring, Liam. Thank you for sharing this.
