Garden Blogger Fall Color Project: The Colors of Prairie Rose

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There are still fall colors beckoning gardeners in Illinois to pull out their cameras! Rose of the blog Prairie Rose found quite a few colorful trees in her neck of the woods. Crabapples bearing fruit, ashes, maples and a hackberry all join in the fall fray. One very interesting thing among the many photos to look at is the flowering crabapple actually flowering in October! Confused but colorful!

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  1. I really enjoy your site. You have inspired me to actually take cuttings instead of just reading about it. I have been cutting fool this past week. We live on 5 acres, and I just started landscaping this past year. We have a lot of room to fill! Naturally I think I have to have one (or more) of every plant I see, so your advice will save me thousands, (Plus it is SO FUN!) Thank you so much. Lynn in Washington state.

  2. Lynn,

    Thank you very much for the compliment! I’m glad I was able to encourage you to try something new. I know that I’ve had a great deal of fun making new plants through cuttings, not to mention I’ve saved a bit of money. With 5 acres to fill you’ll be busy! Thanks for commenting and feel free to let us know what your working on and how its going. 🙂

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The Garden Blogger Fall Color Project

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Fall colors are certainly on their way. Here in Tennessee the trees are beginning the process but many people are worried that the colors will not be what they could be without the rain. Whatever the case we will be happy with whatever colors we do have and will enjoy watching all the colors around the continent as the color show moves south. I’d like to invite all bloggers to participate! Just click on the picture at the bottom for more information.

Let the Fall Color Show begin!

Our first entry into the Garden Blogger Fall Color Project comes to us from the great state of Maine. Dawn, who writes with Tina and Skeeter at In the Garden, is showing us some fantastic fall color scenes around her area. She takes us through pictures from the foothills near her home to Keoka Lake and Bear Mountain Pond. She even sneaks in some pictures of wild turkeys, they better find a good hiding spot before November! Of all the great pictures Dawn took my favorites are the one on the left here of the cresting water of the Crooked River and the mountain behind Moose Pond. There’s just something about water, mountains, and fall colors that is hard to resist!

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  2. Not much color happening in GA as of yet as we are a bit behind. Our daffys come out first in spring but your fall color beats us…

    I am finding it interesting how one pear is turning colors while one standing next to it is pure green! Strange… Some of the dogwoods are doing the same thing. Some showing color and red berries while others nothing…

  5. I was really looking forward to posting some of the fall colors here but you know what happened.

    Fortunately, I can still visit y’alls blogs on the family computer and see all the glorious colors from your neck of the woods.

    Maybe I’ll try to upload a few to the family computer and post them on my blog. I want to join the fun! ;~)

  6. We’re still waiting for some more changes. The dogwoods are beginning to turn, be we have at least a couple more weeks until anything worth photographing is ready.

    Frances

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The Garden Blogger Fall Color Project

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With fall fast approaching and some areas of the world already beginning to see the shades of autumn leaves appearing I thought it might be a fun idea to track where the peak colors are changing. I hope you’ll jump in and participate in this project!

Here’s the idea:
1) Take pictures of the peak fall colors near you and post about them on your blog. Be sure to tell us some details of where the pictures were taken and what kind of trees are pictured. It doesn’t have to be in your yard, just somewhere near you.
2) Then report back to this post and let me know that you’ve posted your peak post. I’ll link to your post so that everyone may enjoy your fall color display.
3) Be sure to identify your City, State (or province) and Country in your post and in the link.
4) Also please be sure to link back to this post to encourage others to participate!

In theory we should be able to follow the transition of peak times from far in the north to as far south as the leaves change color. Sorry to those folks in the deep south or in the tropics this is more of a cooler climate event.

I’ll post the most recent 5 blog posts in my sidebar with a link to a summary post that will include some of the details of each fall color location. All bloggers are welcome to participate, it’s not just for garden bloggers! So quickly go out there and take some fall color pictures in their prime before the trees get naked!

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  3. Sure would be great to see all the beautiful colors from different parts of the world. We do have a few trees that change but it is so far into the winter. Some parts are pretty but for the most part all is evergreen. Even the oak in my back yard doesn’t loose it’s leaves {if you can call them that} until almost Feb.
    Super great idea.

  5. I’m all for it Dave, though you know I won’t have the peak photos for you until closer to end of October. I’ll make myself a reminder note..

  6. Sounds like a great idea, Dave. It will be a couple of weeks at least before things are at their peak here, although the change does seem earlier than usual this year.

  7. In the 8 years I have lived near Augusta, GA. we have only had one really nice colorful fall. We have been in drought conditions for about 6 of those 8 years and I think that may play a part with little color.

    But there is always one or two trees which stand out though. I will be looking for them…

  12. Thanks everyone for your interest! Please feel free to copy the logo on my sidebar for use on your site to encourage others to jump and show their peak colors!

  14. Tina,

    With Blogger you can add a picture element to your sidebar. Then when it asks for the location of the picture cut and paste the location from the picture here. It shoudl also have a spot to link it up to. Copy the post location: http://thehomegarden.blogspot.com/2008/09/garden-blogger-fall-color-project.html and paste it in the right spot and save. Blogger makes it easy. You could also use html code to make a link and replace the text with the picture location.

  15. Dave, I found your post through a link on Tina’s and Dawn’s blog–this is a great idea! I live in central Illinois, and the leaves are just beginning to show a hint of color, so it will be a couple of weeks before I can participate. It will be interesting to see the fall show change in different parts of the country.

  21. This is a lovely idea! Trees here in Ireland are just now beginning to turn. So maybe on a nice day, when it isn’t raining, I’ll cycle around with my camera and see what’s colorful.

  24. Dave, I’m not very good at following directions. Here’s my post – not a landscape shot, but color nonetheless. It’s in Howard County, Maryland (North of DC and South and West of Baltimore).

    Fall Color

  25. I’m new to your blog, but I wanted to say that this is a GREAT idea! I liven in the deep south where leaves just turn brown and fall … grrr! But I am enjoying the beautiful fall colors through your blog and the others who are participating.

  33. Hi Dave, I’ve published two posts about our fall color this past week. I have one more to create with our bushes in the next day or so. When I do, I’ll make sure I’ll add a link to your site. This is a good project!
    I’m zone 4 – 5a, in SE Iowa.

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