I live in southern New Hampshire and have been noticing lately that the leaves are already changing color.
I can’t seem to ever remember seeing color change so early.
Normally I’ll see trees around swamps and marshes that change far sooner than other trees. But today I saw trees all around me with a splotch or two of yellow or orange.
Anyone else noticing it?
I’m farther north than you, and nope. It’s green as can be here.
Yea I’ve seen this in SW Michigan. I figured it was either disease, or even the tree leaves were loosing their jobs.
I haven’t noticed this yet, but I’m not surprised. I’m in Ohio and everything has been early this year. The daylilies that usually finish blooming in August were done in July (there are still a few daylilies in other gardens, but they’re the ones that are typically the latest bloomers). My coneflowers are starting to look ragged. The cicadas have been making noise since early July (they’re usually a late summer sign; it’s supposed to be six weeks to the first frost when they start singing, which would put the first frost in August sometime :eek: this year).
So, no leaves changing yet, but other signs of the summer’s end times.
What appears to be leaves changing colors is usually aphid or leaf-borer kill. We saw it all the time in Alaska and every year I had to explain to the nervous types that no, fall wasn’t already here.
God, I hope not!
We’ve only had “summer” for about the last four weeks; I’m not ready for that to change.
There have been a couple of cool mornings this past week that had a “feel” of fall to them but so far I’m not noticing anything in the foliage.
I’ve definitely seen more that just dead leaves (a bland yellow color). What I’m seeing are pockets of orange here and there. I imagine what you describe wouldn’t produce orange?
I’ve also seen a lot of yellowing of the green, as if the trees are on their way to different colors.
The 5 foot tall stand of bee balm in the back, the flowers are deteriorating rapidly (not that there are many bees to attract any more :() - which seems awfully early in the season. The burning bushes out front have a reddish tint already! Three weeks ahead of schedule (state fair week)!
Some trees’ leaves will turn orange as well as brown from bug kill. Either that or the tree has developed some sort of leaf disease. Fall isn’t here yet, trust me.
One branch of my dogwood tree always turns before anything else . . . and it’s turning now, the earliest ever. But a lot of my garden has been blooming early this year as well.
Are you having a drought? That can cause them to turn early. I do have to say that this year has seemed to be speeded (sped?) up by about six weeks though. July was one 90 degree day after another, and this weekend looked and smelled like Autumn. It’s a welcome relief, but ominous too.
I’m about 3700 miles north of Anchorage, and my trees are looking green and healthy.
I was in the Whites on Saturday, no real color of any kind yet. Not sure what you’re seeing but it’s not a trend in the state.
That would put you about 3000 miles the other side of the north pole.
We’re in southern Maine, and there is a single maple near my house that’s turning red. It’s kind of freaking me out, honestly–it’s the beginning of August, for god’s sake. And then all this cool weather, I’ve been wearing a sweatshirt around the house and closing windows at night. It smelled like fall the other day, and my tomatoes haven’t even had a chance to ripen yet.
The poplar trees around here are changing, as well as various other trees. I’m attributing it to the 100 degree dry weather.
I saw a “V” of Canadian Geese here in Tennessee, the other day.
OK, several trees around my house are changing now. Freaky.
Every year about this time I can see the first sign of changing leaves, usually in the more stressed trees. So it’s not that unusual, although the very dry conditions may be making it more obvious this year.
I’ve been trying to pay more attention to the trees around me. I see a lot of yellowed leaves, suggesting lack of water (not much rain around here for awhile now). But I’ve also been seeing some pockets of bright color.