Dawn Redwood - Orange Needles in Fall - November 2024
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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