FALL
COLOR: by Doug Niemeyer
I could drone on and on about each
plant and all there stellar and not so stellar qualities; but all you want to
hear is what color do they offer to the landscaping. So below is that
information.
Sugar……………….Orange-Red
Red
Rubrums………Red
Oaks:
Red
Oak……………Red
Pin…………………Red
All
Birch………….……….Yellow
Ginkgo…………………….Yellow
Tamarack
(or) Larches……Yellow
Sweetgum.………………...Orangish red
Tulip
Tree…………………Yellow
Mountain Ash……………..Yellow w/ Orange berries
Japanese lacy leaf maples…..Reds to
Burgundies
Dogwoods…………………Scarlet
to Dark Reds
Flowering
Pears…………...Red
Crabs (some
color but mainly fall fruit)
SHURBS:
Serviceberry……………....Orange
Cotoneasters………………Red
Burning
Bush……………...Red
Spirea
Goldflame………….Red
Dogwoods
………………..Purplish red to red
Lilac
Common……………Yellow
Oakleaf
Hydrangeas………Scarlet
Nine
Bark………….……...Orange
Roses (some
leaf color but more seed pod interest)
Pygmy
Barberry…………..Red
Viburnums…………………Orange and Reds Some
berry interest
Boston
Ivy………………..Red
Virginia
Creeper…………..Red
Anemone
(Japanese’s)……....Flowers late
Astilbe……………………….Leaves
stay green long into fall, brown seed heads
Sedums
(taller)………………Flowers late, Flower heads remain upright
Mums………………………..Flowers
late
Coreopsis threadleaf…………Flowers
late
Crested Iris…………………..Yellow Leaves
Peonies……………………….Red or Burgundy
Leaves
Black-eyed-Susan……………Flowers late
Balloon Flower………………Yellow Leaves
Even though
their color does not change they offer “life” to the landscape when all the
deciduous plants have lost there leaves and look rather dead.
There it
is, color potential into November. Let’s
squeeze the last little bit of color out of every plant and shrub, for we all
know what color blankets our world when the last yellow maple leaf falls…….
WHITE !!
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