In a garden full of evergreens it's nice to get a bonus bit of colour, even if that colour comes from the plants shedding their leaves, thus beginning my nervous wait for spring buds and the proof that I haven't killed them.
I was relieved to see Taxodium distichum is deciduous, as when I got back from the US it was doing this:
The Ginkgo biloba is yellow, and shedding leaves (if only I could lift up its skirt and check if it's a girl ginkgo or a boy ginkgo...):
And although it looks a bit miserable, up close the Metasequoia glyptostroboides is actually really pretty:
It seems a little strange that all my lovely autumn colours have come from gymnosperms - I have a Magnolia and Hamamelis, and I'd hoped to have some colours before they shed their leaves, but the witch hazel went from green to bare, and the magnolia looks like it's going the same way!
I was relieved to see Taxodium distichum is deciduous, as when I got back from the US it was doing this:
The Ginkgo biloba is yellow, and shedding leaves (if only I could lift up its skirt and check if it's a girl ginkgo or a boy ginkgo...):
And although it looks a bit miserable, up close the Metasequoia glyptostroboides is actually really pretty:
It seems a little strange that all my lovely autumn colours have come from gymnosperms - I have a Magnolia and Hamamelis, and I'd hoped to have some colours before they shed their leaves, but the witch hazel went from green to bare, and the magnolia looks like it's going the same way!
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