Trees and Shrubs for Colorful Fall Foliage
Everybody talks about a dogwood tree in the spring. They’re like, oh, I love the pink and the white dogwoods. But the fall foliage on dogwoods is spectacular. It is one of the prettiest fall flower or fall colored trees that we sell here at the nursery. And so a lot of the pictures I sent you were of the smaller potted trees that were all red, white or pink dogwoods. But their foliage turns like a red magenta color in the fall and was sometimes even with a little bit of orange in it. It’s really a pretty fall foliage.
One of the other ones was a Brandywine maple. It was one of the bigger trees that was in the photo. It’s out in our bald and burlap beds. That one has almost like a burgundy wine red kind of fall color to it. It’s green all year and then has just this incredible wine red fall color and it’s seedless, so it doesn’t produce the helicopters. So it’s a much cleaner maple and it stays a little bit smaller than the regular maples as well. Most customers coming in looking for maples anymore, they’re looking for one of the seedless varieties. Sun Valley is a good one, Brandywine is a good one, Celebration is a good one.
One of the other pictures here is actually a sugar maple. We talk a lot about the red maples. They’re green all year and turn red in the fall. Well, sugar maples, there are certain varieties that will do good here and certain varieties that struggle in the heat of summer. But this one is called Fall Fiesta. It has the best orange colors and yellow colors of any of the sugar maples. Green Mountain would be a close second. But both those varieties are really, really bright orange and yellow fall colors in a sugar maple.
There’s some potted smaller like looking bushes, there’s a row of red and then a row of yellow. So there’s two different ones there. Those are viburnum. And the one is called Blue Muffin, and it’s more of an upright grower. And then you’ve got another one to the left there. The really bright red ones.
They’re very similar in fall color to a burning bush. And viburnum are very, very tough plants, just like a burning bush. They’ll grow almost anywhere. And they have a really pretty white flower in the spring where the burning bush is kind of just green all year. And then turns red in the fall.
The burning bush here, they’re starting to get their cherry red fall color to them as well.
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