Comments on: Tree Update: Fall From My Window http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/blog/2007/11/13/tree-update-fall-from-my-window/ Photographs, quotes and thoughts by Julie Walton Shaver Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:26:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Jeff from Linden http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/blog/2007/11/13/tree-update-fall-from-my-window/#comment-7484 Jeff from Linden Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:19:04 +0000 http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/blog/2007/11/13/tree-update-fall-from-my-window/#comment-7484 Hi Jules, Nice new tree picks. I see the leaf :) Today was the first day when my October Glory had significant red color. The front of the tree, facing the noon day sun, mostly has red leaves, while the back of the tree is mostly still green. The end effect from the street is kind of a purplish color, somewhat similar to the Japanese Maple in the flower bed behind it. From my window, it's just a hint of red. There's still time for a big show though. I was just thinking that you haven't documented the Red Sunset colors as much as the October Glory. Does it follow the same schedule? Jeff Hi Jules,

Nice new tree picks. I see the leaf :)

Today was the first day when my October Glory had significant red color. The front of the tree, facing the noon day sun, mostly has red leaves, while the back of the tree is mostly still green. The end effect from the street is kind of a purplish color, somewhat similar to the Japanese Maple in the flower bed behind it. From my window, it’s just a hint of red. There’s still time for a big show though.

I was just thinking that you haven’t documented the Red Sunset colors as much as the October Glory. Does it follow the same schedule?

Jeff

]]> By: Jules http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/blog/2007/11/13/tree-update-fall-from-my-window/#comment-7488 Jules Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:57:05 +0000 http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/blog/2007/11/13/tree-update-fall-from-my-window/#comment-7488 Hey Jeff. Coincidentally, I took a picture of my red sunset just today. Didn't post it yet. Might do it tomorrow, but I wanted to get a shot from the other side of house, and didn't have time. The schedule for the red sunset is usually this: Starts coloring a week ahead of the October Glory, reaches peak color faster, isn't as bright red (but it's a more "natural" red to my eye) and loses all its leaves at least a week ahead of the October Glory, usually more like two weeks. Total peak red color time for the red sunset is usually no more than 2 weeks. But in a good year with good fall color conditions (warm days, cool nights, some rain but not too much) the October Glory can be at peak color for an entire MONTH, though not in October -- my November Glory red maple. ;) Hey Jeff. Coincidentally, I took a picture of my red sunset just today. Didn’t post it yet. Might do it tomorrow, but I wanted to get a shot from the other side of house, and didn’t have time. The schedule for the red sunset is usually this:

Starts coloring a week ahead of the October Glory, reaches peak color faster, isn’t as bright red (but it’s a more “natural” red to my eye) and loses all its leaves at least a week ahead of the October Glory, usually more like two weeks. Total peak red color time for the red sunset is usually no more than 2 weeks. But in a good year with good fall color conditions (warm days, cool nights, some rain but not too much) the October Glory can be at peak color for an entire MONTH, though not in October — my November Glory red maple.

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