Dawn Redwood - Turning Orange - Early November 2021
I've posted photos of our Dawn Redwood here on the blog over the years - usually including a photo showing the needles turning orange in a nice Fall show. Last year, I posted in late October a fully-orange tree . This year - we're in the first week of November and just *some* of the needles are turning orange. You can see in the photo below a few of the pairs of orange needle-lets (is that what they're called??) surrounded by green ones. This is my favorite tree in our yard and I'm really interested to see it keep growing. It is slow-going (unlike the Bald Cypress in our front yard), but it just keeps putting on a little bit of height each growing season. I posted photos showing the usual Fall flush of growth in late August this year . It seems that 2020 (Orange in October) is the outlier. As, this photo from November 2019 shows a mixed orange/green tree . That's where I think we'll end up this year - something like a mid-November orange Fall show. 20