As our nights are getting cooler, the trees are slowly changing colors. So this morning I wandered through the property to capture a few before they fall. The first picture is of our Fuyu Persimmon Tree. The second our young Hawthorne. This year we've got more berries then last, so it's slowly settling in, finding spaces in our heavy clay soil to spread his roots. It is a Paul's Scarlet Hawthorne, which blooms a nice red, however for some reason, this last spring it bloomed white. Very strange, could've sworn the first years flowers were red. But maybe not. We'll see what happens next year. It is a lovely, little tree and I am looking forward to watching it grow, shading our front porch. And with flowers in the spring, wonderful color in the fall and those luscious, shiny berries in the winter for the birds can't go wrong. And of course our persimmon tree, though fruitless this year for some reason, does have very nice flowers as well, followed by those richly colored leaves in autumn and delicious orange fruit in November. Hope it resumes it's fruit production next year.
As our nights are getting cooler, the trees are slowly changing colors. So this morning I wandered through the property to capture a few before they fall. The first picture is of our Fuyu Persimmon Tree. The second our young Hawthorne. This year we've got more berries then last, so it's slowly settling in, finding spaces in our heavy clay soil to spread his roots. It is a Paul's Scarlet Hawthorne, which blooms a nice red, however for some reason, this last spring it bloomed white. Very strange, could've sworn the first years flowers were red. But maybe not. We'll see what happens next year. It is a lovely, little tree and I am looking forward to watching it grow, shading our front porch. And with flowers in the spring, wonderful color in the fall and those luscious, shiny berries in the winter for the birds can't go wrong. And of course our persimmon tree, though fruitless this year for some reason, does have very nice flowers as well, followed by those richly colored leaves in autumn and delicious orange fruit in November. Hope it resumes it's fruit production next year.
Love that 'leaf' photo... beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHow nice that your area has such lovely deciduous trees with leaves that change into brilliant autumn colors. Won't see that in SoCal. Here in Oregon, along the coast, we've some trees like that, mostly maples. The majority of the trees here are evergreen. But you know that. :)
Oh but we do have liquidambars down here! They're gorgeous in the fall!
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