The Fall color is beautiful this year at Dawn Gardens. It is a little earlier than normal and with 10″ of rain, the colors are bright.

Cherry in fruit orchard

Sour Wood or Tupelo as it is called in Mississippi (Nyssa sylvatica). The female trees have blue fruit.

Eddie’s White Wonder Dogwood in the back and Korean Dogwood in the front

Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) in September (top) and October (bottom 2 photos).

Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum)

Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’) Zelkova trees in the back

Red Oak (Quercus coccinea) 6 years old from a 15 gallon can.

Weeping Flowering Cherry (Prunus subhirtella ‘Pendula’)

Persian Parrotia (Parrotia persica)

Persimmon (Diospyros kaki ‘Hachiya’)

Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Red Bells’

Sassafras albidum

Katsura Tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

Red Japanese Maple sprouted on its own 10 years ago and I never dug it up. It has no emitters but gets some water from adjacent plants.

Video of Japanese Maples and Dogwoods behind house.

Video of Dogwoods and Sugar Maples

Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Dogwoods, Birch and Heather garden behind house.

Fall Leaves:

Red Maple and Zelkova

Zelkova (Zelkova serrata)

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica)

Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii

Fall color photos by Rick Krach:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96352750@N05/albums/72157720199445140