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Autumn color has been a bit slow in my back yard, but my hawthorn has come to the party.



Here is a lone trident whip that is taking the lead.

I've got nothin.....

Here are a few more pictures as autumn colour this year progresses a little further.
The gingko is at maximum colour today This trident also has an impressive colour range at the moment The rain and wind over the last couple of days has knocked a fair few leaves off this English elm but you get the idea This one is not yet bonsai but does have some potential. It is A. palmatum 'Hanama Nishiki' which is a dwarf Japanese maple. May be a bit temperamental, even when grafted, but with small leaves, compact growth and great autumn colour it is worth persisting with.

Bought an olive recently and this was growing in the pot. Only a tiny seedling but ohh so red.

Pearcy001 wrote:Bought an olive recently and this was growing in the pot. Only a tiny seedling but ohh so red.

Nice score there!

My large garden maple with a nice colour display! Being colour blind/deficient makes it harder for me unless it's really
Jumping out!




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Beautiful


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getting quite a nice dab of colour in Sydney this year, so took some pics around the garden and benches yesterday

Enjoy
Ken

The differences in a particular trees can be amazing, and is highlighted by some trees in Baulkham hills near my daughters school.
There are many Liquidamber used as garden and street trees, and this particular group caught my attention a few weeks ago. This morning had a chance to go by and take my camera along too.
There are 4 trees that will have been planted at the same time about 30 years ago, and are all on the same section of footpath so are as close to the same environment as one can get.

1 tree is almost bare, 2 with many leaves still on, and the other is still bright green with only some leaves starting to colour up!

I liken them to a set of traffic lights, with red green and yellow patches

Nature really is awesome !

Ken

There are always differences between individual trees within a species but I think it is possible that these may well be different species of Liquidamber. There are 4 species in the family and at least a couple of them are grown in Australia.
note the green leaf has more points at the base of the leaf and a couple of extra points along the sides of the main lobes indicating it could be L. orientalis. The other plainer leaves are probably L. styraciflua.

all this autumn colour going around, and not a single one of my deciduous tree's has coloured up yet.

Naimul wrote:all this autumn colour going around, and not a single one of my deciduous tree's has coloured up yet.

LOL

Where about in sydney are you?

thanks Neil.
Probably correct, but just weird because they would have all come from the same nursery at the same time. Still cool tho!

Ken

just love autumn

kcpoole wrote:

Naimul wrote:all this autumn colour going around, and not a single one of my deciduous tree's has coloured up yet.

LOL

Where about in sydney are you?

thanks Neil.
Probably correct, but just weird because they would have all come from the same nursery at the same time. Still cool tho!

Ken

Im in the eastern suburbs, close to Sydney Airport. a friend of mine suggested its probably because my trees are a little bit more protected compared to street trees and most of everyone's tree on here.

If you go for a drive along Wisemans Ferry Road, you will go along a straight bit (Click here for Google Street View). The smaller trees on the Northern Side are all red and the larger trees on the Southern side are all still green.

Both sides are maples.