Autumn delights us with its warm colors...
Yellow
- garden chrysanthemum (flower),
- Japanese quince 'Cido' (fruit),
- sternbergia (flower),
- ginkgo (leaf),
- caramel tree (leaf),
- hazel tree (leaf),
- tulip tree (leaf),
- Japanese spirea (leaf)..
Orange
- pyracantha (fruit),
- sumac of Virginia (leaf),
- garden chrysanthemum (flower),
- Nyssa (leaf),
- cotinus 'Grace' (leaf),
- mountain ash (fruit),
- sea buckthorn (fruit),
- parrotia (leaf)...
Red
- winged charcoal (leaf),
- ornamental apple tree 'Crimson Brilliant' or 'Nicoline' (fruit),
- Japanese skimmia (berries),
- nandina (berries),
- blood dogwood (leaf),
- Ampelopsis quinquefolia (leaf),
- arbutus (fruit),
- nandina 'Firepower' (leaf),
- deciduous berberis (leaf)...
Purple, black
- leucothoe (leaf),
- Coignet's vine (leaf),
- leycesteria (flower and fruit),
- sumac of Virginia (fruit),
- blood dogwood (fruit),
- aronia (fruit),
- Japanese angelica (fruit)...
Rose, mallow
- aster (flower),
- Japanese anemone (flower),
- garden chrysanthemum (flower),
- colchicum (flower),
- cyclamen of Naples (flower),
- snowberry (fruit),
- callicarpa (fruit),
- autumn camellia (flower)...
Blue, purple
- caryopteris (flower),
- perovskia (flower),
- ceratostigma (flower),
- vitex (flower),
- laurel-tin,
- Ampelopsis quinquefolia (fruit),
- mahonia (fruit),
- aster (flower)...
White, silver
- Pampas grass (spike),
- miscanthus (spike),
- snowberry (fruit),
- arbutus (flower),
- aster (flower),
- colchicum (flower),
- garden chrysanthemum (flower)...
Did you know that?
This autumnal color change is a true miracle of nature. In spring and summer, the leaves, largely nourished by the intense functioning of the plant, are full of chlorophyll which gives them this classic green color. When temperatures drop and the days get shorter, the plant's activity slows down, the leaves are no longer fed as much and the chlorophyll gradually gives way to the production of other pigments that color the leaves yellow or red.
