2014 fall colours from Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the Toronto Botanical Garden and my backyard!
This week's snowfall and lower than average temperatures (below freezing) unofficially started winter, for me anyway. So before we plunge into the throes of another Toronto winter, here are some pictures from sunnier and warmer times (about 30 days ago or so!)
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| Mount Pleasant Cemetery's Remembrance Walk fall foliage |
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is such a wonderful place to take a walk, bike ride, jog and, for an Arboriculture student like myself ten years ago, collect leaves for a Plant I.D. project. I took a few pictures on a quiet fall morning with a brilliant blue sky above me.
On another day, I enjoyed some late autumn brilliance at the Toronto Botanical Garden surrounded by the Japanese and Paperbark maples that seemed to glow.
Lastly, I preserved one memory from my own backyard for you.
Fall colours are so fleeting, dashed by November's wind and sleet.
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| Mount Pleasant Cemetery Sugar maple autumn foliage |
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| Paperbark maple (Acer griseum) fall foliage at the Toronto Botanical Garden |
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| Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea) autumn foliage at a client's yard |
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| Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) autumn foliage at a client's yard |
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| Autumn foliage of a young Sugar Maple at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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| Viburnum carlesii "Diana" ( "Diana" Koreanspice viburnum) fall foliage at the Toronto Botanical Garden |
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| Mount Pleasant Cemetery's Forest of Remembrance autumn foliage |
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| Mount Pleasant Cemetery's Forest of Remembrance fall foliage |
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| Acer griseum (Paperbark maple) fall foliage at the Toronto Botanical Garden |
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| Common witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) autumn foliage at Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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| Autumn foliage in my backyard |
It's a bit of a jumble but if you start at the right side and move left, here are the shrubs:
a) dark purple leaves: "Popcorn" doublefile viburnum (Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum 'Popcorn')
b) yellow: a Katsuratree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) I grew from seed
c) light green: "Blue Muffin" arrowwood viburnum ( (Viburnum dentatum 'Blue Muffin')
d) dark green: another "Popcorn" doublefile viburnum that hasn't changed colour yet
e) orange/pink: "Seiryu" Japanese maple (Acer palmatum "Seiryu")
I have a few Japanese Forest Grass at the bottom of the bed.
Autumn is my favourite time in the backyard. The trees and shrubs provide the fireworks, brief as they are.
(Please disregard the landscaping fabric on the left path leading to the back. It will be covered with flagstone next year, budget-willing!)
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| Bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) autumn foliage at Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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| Bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) fall foliage at Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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