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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Foliage Follow Up November 2012



The sidewalk on one side of our house .  Most of the foliage is still looking pretty green although you can see fallen leaves all over the sidewalk.


Further down the sidewalk the tetrapanax grove forms lovely umbrellas under which to walk.


Acer palmatum 'Koto no ito and Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Van Pelt's Blue'

Macleaya cordata is feeling a little damp.

Leaves of Acer palmatum 'Shirazz' aka 'Gwen's Rose Delight' showing off her fall finery.
The street on the other side of our house looking particularly autumnal.  Grace showed pictures of leaves with cars to match.  This is the closest I could come to meeting this new expectation.
Confession:  I took this picture a week or so  ago and these leaves have mostly fallen now.
 
Foliage Follow Up is hosted each month by Pam Penick at Digging.  Be sure to click on over to her site to check out beautiful foliage from around the world!

25 comments:

  1. The grove of Tetrapanax, tall enough that you can walk underneath it is lovely :)

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    1. Tetrapanax... it all started with one little plant a few years ago and has been taking over that area. Kind of fun, though.

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  2. Love the combination of Maple and Chamaecyparis...and that last shot is so perfectly Autumnal :-)

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    1. That is a great combination that happened totally by accident. Hey, how about that Chamaecyparis in that blank spot by your front porch. That variety doesn't get very big and would look really cool in the autumn with all of your yellowing grasses. It's really very blue and worth searching for.

      We're on a corner lot - The autumnal shot is on the street in front of the house and the one that still looks green is on the side. You can sort of pick your season.

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  3. Beautiful foliage! Tale of two seasons.

    Great combinations, silver, green, reds almost holiday season.

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    1. Yikes! Can it be that time already? Glad you liked the combinations.

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  4. I want a "pick my season" corner lot. Of course you know which one I would chose. Have you ever had your Tetrapanax bloom?

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    1. They've gotten cool furry buds a couple of times and even once one started to open a little but it always happens in the late fall and gets cut off by a f...ze.

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  5. Lovely image of the autumn trees in the street and the tetrapanax too, such a strange name for a plant sounds like a name for a medicine doesn't it.
    Best Wishes
    Karen.

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    1. You are right! Doctor, because of my anxiety level, I need to have my Tetrapanax prescription refilled. Our autumn colors were especially lovely this year.

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  6. Very pretty! Tetrapanax is my new love! I planted one last summer and I hope it will spread! How old is yours and how does it behave in winter?

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    1. It's been there about six years. When we get a hard freeze the leaves die. The stems are much hardier and in mild winters will stay and when warm weather comes again, new leaves will emerge ant the plant grows even taller. In harsh winters the stems may die back to the ground but new ones will come up from the roots. This plant has a tendency, especially when the stems are cut back by very cold temperatures, to send out a lot of suckers and form a thicket. However, when small, they are very easy to pull up therefore easy to control.

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  7. That view of the plantings on either side of the sidewalk is just amazing.

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    1. Thanks. Those are some of the outlaw plantings that get me in trouble. See how some of the plants are over the line of the sidewalk? Already fixed that as I don't want a love note from the city.

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  8. Wow, the first and last pics in this post blew me away. Your sidewalk garden is simply magical, and lucky you to enjoy such amazing fall color in your street trees.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment Pam but it's just the angle of the camera; those beds need sooo much work. We have been particularly lucky on the fall color this year. I can't remember an autumn when the foliage season was so long and intense.

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  9. Oh foliar happiness!!!!!! Your sidewalk is like a horticultural wonderland! I LOVE IT!

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    1. We do love our foliage don't we? I'm thinking that a few palms out there would be a great big leaved evergreen addition.

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    2. YES! Palms would be pretty fantastic out there!!!!!

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  10. What a lovely street to walk along under all those trees and their foliage. Beautiful.

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    1. We are very lucky that people planted those trees a hundred years ago!

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  11. Looks like you've still got a lot of green going on :) Love that last shot, one side of the street red and the other yellow!

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    1. Washington is sometimes called The Evergreen State. Our fall colors have been especially nice this year.

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  12. A very beautiful fall street. Only wish they woild last longer, most of our colored leaves have fallen, although the berberis are still outstanding reds and oranges.

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    1. The beautifully colored leaves of autumn are short lived indeed.

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