Yes I know it's a bit early and the weather is turning hot... but I have maples changing colour fast in my garden, so I thought let's get this thread going. I'm hoping for a blaze of reds , oranges and yellows this year. A young Aratama Aconitifolium x 2 Vic pink x 2 Twombley's Red Sentinel (still struggling to go upright after the damage last year) Ginala flame Black lace Brocade x2 Ornatum A couple of pics of part of my garden
5th September,and after a hot night, then morning dew, my rufinerve's Autumn colours are doing quite nicely.
Many of my trees (they're potted) are showing signs of stress because of the successive heat waves and drought we've had this summer. Last Saturday (it was already 30°C) I went to the Ilex arboretum of Meung-sur-Loire - I had my mosquito repellent with me, thank god! Here are a few photos of Acers that are left to grow naturally among the near-hundred of box-trees varieties: The first time I've seen a crataegifolius. From a distance, I thought it was a buergerianum :
A few more in todays 31° heat, but Autumn colours are contimuing here in southern England. With a few spring leaves as well. They are getting quite confused !!! Orangeola Summer gold Trident Red Wine
one noteworthy tree regarding tolerance and early fall colouring. This sangu kaku continues to amaze us, especially the abuse it has taken with the heat / smoke and wind the past few months. I took the pic first thing this morning
As a first year maple beginner I wish my plants can survive to next year lol Amagishiguri lost all leaves in summer and get a few new growth thanks god Same as Mila Aureum is doing great dragon master got some new leaves autumn moon and pumpkin terrible dry leaves shaina orange dream lost all leaves as well but have a late spring new growth Poor Jordan and Purple ghost I also have rainbow, Lilian’s jewel and Hana Matoi lost all leaves and so far didn’t see any new growth so worry lol
Couple of garden pics Wakehurst pink Fire cracker Ukigumo x3 New growth on Oridono-nishiki Reticulatum Sharon - really interesting green and black leaf Baldsmith
We had several periods of very hot and dry weather, then rainstorms, and again, it's unusually sunny for September here : today it was 25°C. Even some of my maples that are in 90% shade have more or less suffered. Among those that were in almost full sun and, 'Rainbow', 'Phoenix', and 'Arakawa' (with Acer laevigatum on the right) : Though I repotted it in the spring and put it in a larger pot with big pine bark on top and around, the leaves of the 'Sango kaku' turned red early. The 'Atropurpureum dissectum' of some sort managed well until a few days ago : 'Beni hagoromo' was about to lose its leaves, so I put it in 90% shade in July, and it's faring not so bad : Now for the worst : 'Tsuma gaki'. I already lost one, it's one of my favourite but it seems I just can't keep it healthy, no matter what : One of the healthiest in my "livestock", a seedling from 'Ryusen' : ... I remember putting the heating on in the evening in mid-September 20 years ago. Now, I open the windows, so the rooms get some fresh air when the sun goes down (10° - 25°+)...
@AlainK both of our TG’s seem to have spots and holes on their leaves..mines growing and pushing out more leaves but looks a bit ropey by August.. Funny enough my Beni Hagoromo (1.5m) was struggling so I also moved it to a shaded position pre summer.. with only an hour or two morning sun..looking much happier..will take another year or two for the leaves to become densely populated again
Hey - sorry to hear that your beloved pet passed away.. In brighter spirits your Aureum is looking really good :)
Aureum has already curled up for the season here, helped along by an atmospheric river. A few days ago was still some developing color, no need to show the brownout this year.
There's this one that was from a tray of "various seeds". At first, I thought it was a cross from a shirasawanum, but now I'm pretty sure it's a pseudosieboldianum. In the last heat wave, it lost most of its leaves, those remaining were badly scorched. I thought it would wait until next spring, but we had several days of rain last week. And today I noticed that it's pushing out new leaves, and even flowers ! It's usually a bad sign of over-stress (le chant du cygne ?...), and I was afraid it would use all its reserves. So I slip-potted it (the roots were not so tight), 5 cm at the bottom, 2.5 cm around and added a little slow-release fertilizer. Fingers crossed...
A few of mine just starting to change colour as the daylight hours rapidly decreases. Black Lace English Lace Summer Gold Vic Pink Mikawa yatsubusa
Small potted trees, the first one a cutting made made some 25/30 years ago : An air-layer : A clone of 'Orange Dream' in too shallow a pot for such a hot October :
Few different cultivars from this week , colours are changing very quickly now with all the potted/containerised trees , where as the ground guys still think they are in late Summer mode :) Following pictures are of Acontifolium , Omureyama , and finally O'isami from today with the only bit of sun we have had all week in Yorkshire !!
