We've got a bit longer to go in the Northeast but your posts gives us hope that spring might actually be approaching.... thanks for sharing.In the rest of the country people get nice fall foliage on Japanese maples, but here in San Francisco it doesn't get cold enough at night in the fall to make good foliage color. So, spring is the best color we get. I just walked by this tree this morning and couldn't help taking a photo.
Cheers.
Actually, I know very little about it. It came from a friend's collection. It's tiny though, and the leaves are tiny too. I'm guessing it's some cutting from a larger tree. He liked propagating trees himself.
Well here we have temps well into the nineties in Nov. 40 would be tremendous compared to 90. We don't usualy see temps in the 40's at night untill well into Dec. and then the leaves are gone. It is very rare here to have maples turn orange or red. I have had my trident for 14 years and I can only remember having red leaves on it twice. It was a very rare occasion for me.
There are a few liquidambar around. The street trees in the city do turn color, but the colors are not as brilliant as areas that are nearby. I went up to Napa for Thanksgiving and the entire town was filled with glowing yellow ginkgo and red maples. At the same time the trees in the city hadn't changed yet. When they did change the yellow on the ginkgo was much more pale. Maple leaves usually just brown and fall off, no color.
