Here we are in the second half of October and the normal fall color is still slow to set in.
Most of the street trees are still green, but some of the Maples have turned orange and red.
Here’s the view down our street, looking west.
The ‘Donald Wyman’ Crabapple is still full of fruit. The fruit is not quite as plentiful as it had been, thanks to the Robins who have been helping themselves.
All the fruit on the Gray Dogwoods (Cornus racemosa) was eaten as soon as it turned ripe. What is left are these red pedicels. They are fetching in their own way.
Among the herbaceous plants, the Prairie Spurge (Euphorbia corollata) is looking good with bright red stems and golden foliage. The spent flowers are also a nice touch.
The Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) is turning a nice bright yellow.
It’s kind of faded to brown, but the foliage of Great Merrybells (Uvularia grandiflora) took on a nice orange-yellow for a while.
The seedheads of River Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) continue turning from green to yellow to straw-colored.
Has the autumn color peaked yet where you are?
gardeninacity 
Not quite, but the grasses are beginning to turn, as are an assortment of other plants. We don’t have vibrant trees, of course, so it’s the more subtle changes that have to be sought along the bayous and in the bogs.
But you don’t have blizzards and you don’t have to shovel your driveways, so there’s a tradeoff.
More color here this year than most because of the milder, wetter summer, but our leaves tend to quietly slip away with the daylight hours.
Fall color is more of a midwest/northeastern thing, I guess.
Ours are just starting to turn. One little purple Acer turned bright red for a couple of days, then along came a gale and all the leaves were on thr ground, they didn’t last long.
Damn wind, so thoughtless.
Colorwise it’s been very non-fallish here, a few maples here and there. Annuals still blooming in a diminished way (they’re tired). At least we’re having some fall rain now after our summer drought. The fall Cambodian Queen mums are still 2/3 buds, so it’s a good thing they’ll take some frost! The long view down your street sure looks vaguely like fall, it’s quite lovely.
We still haven’t had any frost, and we’re 10 days past the average frost date.
Nice! Down here in the Indianapolis area colors are late too; just in the last couple days the trees have begun blazing. The neighborhood squirrels have been running around like maniacs.
Around here they do that all year long.
No peaking here. Our trees look about the same only they are beginning to lose their leaves. The Seaoats seeds are totally brown here. I should cut them off because you know why… but I like their little brown heads bobbing in the wind. It has been quite windy here.
I need to cut the Sea/River Oats also, I’ve just been too lazy to do it.
I love the photo of the mature trees in your street… their colours every autumn must be lovely. Enjoy autumn … and may it linger.
It seems only fair that it arrives late, it should stay longer.
We’re definitely at peak, and the rains are bringing them down so it is like a thick carpet of leaves out there.
The fall rains should know to be gentle this time of year.
Just starting here in the Chesapeake watershed!
I imagine your warm weather lasts a good deal longer.
Definitely a set of traditional autumn colors and so lovely!
Still feels like early fall, though. I hope the season lasts a bit.
Yes, our autumn has peaked, and the maples are losing their leaves at a good clip. But even late autumn is beautiful.
And you have so many sugar maples there, they have such great color.
They sure do. But even with the maple leaves down, there is still a lot of lovely color. Just a little more muted.
Our autumn colour peaked about a week ago but I still have glorious reds, russet and golden tones on many maples. This year is the best, most vibrant colour I can remember… and we’ve had day after day of sunshine and blue skies. I hate to see autumn come to an end.
I hope it lasts for you.
You have some lovely autumn colour. Those maples are stunning. Our trees haven’t put much of a show on this years, the Beech turned brown and began to drop really quickly. Oh…how those River oats shine! Love them.xxx
Beech are not a common tree here, which is too bad.
Ours has indeed peaked and we’re on the downhill run to winter.
Your foliage seems to be changing much later than ours but it’s still very pretty!
Funny that the fall color is so late this year.
It seems to be lasting longer than usual here, too.
Fall is definitely here! Gorgeous photos
Thank you! I hope fall takes its time leaving.
I am not sure we are going to have any dramatic color after the drought all summer, but, there are always a few pretties. I am going to have to check out the Euphorbia corollata in my front garden to see if it looks as pretty as yours.
E. corollata is a good plant, a little tricky to get established.
Lovely photos. Our autumn colours haven’t been very spectacular this year. Maybe there is a little yet to come but lots of trees dropped their their leaves fairly early.
Because you had such a dry year?
Probably, but last year was so dry too, and we had good colours last autumn.
Our fall colours are full on now. We have had the MOST glorious fall ever…I wish it could go on for longer, but winter is knocking on our door.
Knocking here also. We had our first snow last night.
We still have a few weeks to go yet. My coral bark maple is a golden honey color, the two dogwoods (kousa and florida) are burgundy red, and the crepe myrtle is just beginning to turn a pumpkin color somewhat. But the cotinus and witch hazel are still green.
Pumpkin color and burgundy red sounds pretty good.
Well, we don’t get much fall color, and what bits we get from the poison oak starts as it dries out late in summer, and goes bare by now. Some poison oak in damp areas is coloring nicely. Otherwise, or color is just starting. Sweetugums are sort of pale green. Because the air has been so dry and got warm so late, some of the deciduous trees are defoliating without any color. Sweetugum is good about holding onto the foliage.
Are the maples on the street sugar maples?
No, there are few sugar maples around here, they like it better further north. More likely here we have red maples, silver maples, and (bleh) Norway maples.
Hey, those are the three more common, although still uncommon, maples here. Norway maple is not the naturalized weed that it is there, and the cultivar ‘Schwedlerii’ was a popular street tree in San Jose in the 1950s. Silver maple grows as far south as Los Angeles, but, as you know, is not the greatest maple. (It happens to be my second favorite, after the native bigleaf maple.) Red maple is the only maple that I still recommend as a street tree. It does not get big enough to develop many problems here, but gets tall enough to grow above truck traffic. Bigleaf maple grows in the forests, but is almost never planted in landscapes. Box elder seems to grow wild all over North America, but likewise, is mostly confined to the wild.
Actually we do have some maples, and box elder are common. Also Freeman maples.
Freeman maple is what is considered to be a straight red maple here. I really like them, but the lack of concern for improper nomenclature annoys me. They actually color better here than the red maple. I think box elder is common everywhere.