Beautiful leaves

Autumn

Autumn joy

When trees are freshly painted in their burnished fall colors, take advantage of the splendor with easy decorating projects at home.

Gather beautiful individual leaves during a walk in the country or neighborhood. If you grow trees with beautiful fall color, you can clip small leaf-filled branches for easy arrangements, wreaths, swags, or window boxes.

Chinese pistache

A garden-scale tree with a rounded canopy; narrow leaflets give it a lacy appearance.

 

Pin oak (Quercus palustris)

An open, rounded tree. In brisk fall weather, the glossy leaves turn yellow, red, and finally russet brown.

 

Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)

The most airy and delicate of all maples. Varieties with colorful leaves include 'Atropurpureum' (bronzy green); 'Bloodgood' (scarlet); 'Bonfire' (orange-pink); 'Ever Red' (crimson).

 

Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)

In fall, leaves turn vivid yellow, orange, or red; after they drop, brilliant orange fruits hang on well into winter.


From: Sunset.com/ Posted by Mags