Unlike sugar maple, red maple passes from green to red without much yellow or orange in between…
In the spring, whole branches of beech emerge in shades of red, while other branches offer only green. In the autumn, it seems the same is true: whole branches turn in advance of others…
This non-native species, Burning bush, offers one of the most dramatic shades of early foliage.
The sugar maple’s red leaves begin to appear on the ground, and they begin to appear in the treetops. But only the highest leaves have begun to turn and drop, as the sugar maple leaves down below ...