Red Trees

This has been a very lovely autumn, with the leaves staying on the trees longer and the colours deeper and brighter than I remember seeing for a long time.

As I was driving around this last week, I began snapping pictures of many of the red trees I was seeing, and even a grove of brilliant yellow ones, lit by the sun.

A lot of the bright red trees are Japanese maples (Acer palmatum)or red maples (Acer rubrum).

One of the hedge or border plants that’s spectacular this time of year is the Burning Bush plant (Bassia scoparia).It’s actually a garden pest because it’s invasive and it has such a thick root system, it crowds other plants out.This is my friend Andrea’s front hedge.

The light is good at this time of year, low and clear in the afternoons, so the trees look as though they’re lit from within.

As I mentioned, there was a grove of trees that were just the most beautiful yellow and seemed to just glow in the damp afternoon air.And here’s another bright yellow tree that caught my eye.

We are lucky to live in a place that has four distinct seasons. Spring and fall are my favourite seasons. Which is yours?

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