Dawn Redwood - Orange Needles in Fall - November 2024

Fall Color - Orange Needles - on a Dawn Redwood Tree

The Fall Colors series of posts continues today with a look at the Dawn Redwood tree in our backyard.

Yesterday, I posted a look at the red foliage on some of the Oakleaf Hydrangeas in our backyard and talked about how I don't have a ton of 'red' Fall colors.    Earlier, I posted a look at the contrast between the small Saragoga Ginkgo tree and Little Henry Sweetspire by our front stairs.   And before that, I posted a photo of the Butterscotch Amsonia in our 'kitchen curved' bed that was as bright as it has EVER been in the Fall. 

This post shows (at the top) a photo of the orange needles on our Dawn Redwood tree.  This tree went in the ground in 2018 as a three-to-four-foot-tall container-grown tree.  It has grown up and sprawled out.  I'd call this a more 'informal' shape right now.  The leader is leaning over and not shooting up very fast.  

This tree has given this small little orange 'show' each Fall - and I've tried to document it over the years.

In 2023, I included it in a fall color roundup.  

In 2022, I posted in early November a photo showing the orange and green needles.  

In 2021, I posted in early November a photo showing the orange and green needles

In 2020, the tree was still in a more-formal shape and the entire thing turned orange in November

In 2019, the tree was orange and brown and still small back then.  Also, note the border of the bed - I had turf right up to the trunk of this thing.  My....how the beds have grown.  

In 2018, the first Fall - the tree survived the heat of Summer and was putting on the very first Fall show.

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