leaf drop

When the leaves drop this Fall, they tend to do it all at once.
Here is a bit of our front yard, with one of the Subarus, this morning. The culprit is the japanese maple.

Pretty, though.

Around our way, the different trees drop at different times. The Flowering Cherry was first. Then most of the rest. Then there was a lull. Then it was the Willows. That’s the last, I think.

It kinda looks like blood everywhere, such an intense red.

My lawn in covered in snow… but I think it was mostly yellow leaves.

Ginkos? :slight_smile:

Ginkgos? :wink:

Geankgoes? :slight_smile:

Kinkos?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Ink goes?

(It begs the question – Ink goes where?)

It raises the question. It most assuredly does not beg the question, not to us pedants anyway.

Pinkos.

Lovely leaves, Emm! They’re such a nice orange! Exactly the way I imagine colored leaves to be!

Here’s another question . . . what do you do with them? :confused:

Do they just disappear after a few months, like lawn clippings? I suppose they decompose. Make fertilizer?

Geckos?

I found that the best thing to do with dead leaves is to stack them up in a big heap, mixed with the last grass clippings of the year from the lawn. By about April or May you will have “accelerated leaf-mould,” a fabulous acidic mulch that you can put on your raspberries, strawberries and any lime-hating plants such as Camellias and Magnolias. If you don’t grow those it can go on roses or flower beds or on your spuds - anywhere at all. The silliest thing to do is to let the autumn gales blow all the leaves away to your neighbours’ gardens or fields so that they get an increase in fertility and you get a decrease.

I wish I had raspberries and strawberries to mulch! But I’m as bad at gardening as I am at other domestic pursuits, so most of 'em dry up and kind of mulch in place, and some get cleaned up and carted away. I’m happy to say we don’t live in the sort of neighborhood where everyone’s lawn is just so anyway. They’d have chased us out with torches and pitchforks long ago.

:laughing: :laughing: Everyone else is looking at the leaves- I’m lookin’ at that Craftsman/Mission Lamp post!

To respond to the question it was plinkos, geicos, and sing lows sweet chariot

It’s a snazzy lamp-post, all right, all right. There’s a lot to look at in that picture, to be sure.

Ginkgo Biloba, isn’t it? AKA Maidenhair Fern? Somebody has one around our way, but the fallen leaves didn’t look much different from the rest of the mulch on the ground.

Gingko biloba is the Maidenhair TREE. The Maidenhair FERN is Adiantum capillus-veneris.
sniff

Ach sure if I had got it right the first time you would have had nothing to post. :wink: