Thank you, Ema:
The colors this year are not that great. Most trees are still green, a few have some nice splashes of color, and the rest have already lost their leaves. It’s probably the unseasonably warm weather; the poor trees are confused.
The first picture is from an indoor public space on Madison Ave./56th St. because who doesn’t like a little bamboo forest?
Second one is on Madison Ave, all the rest are in Central Park.
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Once again… if you have some photos you’ve been meaning to send me, now would be a good time!
What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
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Jeffg166
The colors were the best they have been in years in Philly but still lacking. The reds are not brilliant. They are mostly deep burgundy to maroon.
satby
Central Park is always amazing to me, a bit of wilderness in the middle of one of the busiest cities in Earth. Thanks Ema!
raven
Pretty pix! Garden Girl has been hobbled by a broken foot and just now getting back into the garden. One things she has done is harvest a ton of “Money Plants”. She has them in vases and, I assume, is going to use them as gifts. We’re headed to the beach in tomorrow and it will be interesting to see if there are any colors down there.
satby
We skipped from 70° days to two 40° days to 20s and 30s with snow. None of my roses had gone dormant yet. And they’re all in pots, still outside because you’re supposed to move them to an unheated garage after they lose their leaves. I’m hoping the snow is enough insulation. We got another 4 inches overnight. It’s 16° right now. 😨
Geo Wilcox
We had the most colorful fall since we moved here in 1998. Tons of reds, burgundy’s, oranges, and yellows so brilliant you almost needed sun glasses to see them. We had a drought before and during the time when the leaves change color so that may be why.
JPL
@raven: Have you been watching “Annika”? It’s coming back for a second season.
Baud
Beautiful pictures.
JPL
Your pictures are always great and show a side of NYC that most people don’t see.
raven
@JPL: We tried but I just can’t hack shows where they stop and talk to the audience! Magpie Murders is good though.
OzarkHillbilly
Thanx for the pics Ema, very nice.
The problem with little bamboo forests is they all want to be great big huge bamboo forests so one has spend a lot of time keeping them in check
@Geo Wilcox: I have read that it works the other way, that a drought will kill the colors (which has been my experience in the past), which is why I was so surprised when we, like you, had excellent colors this year. Peak color sure didn’t last very long tho, a week, maybe 2. Than we had hard freezes(20 and 24 degrees) 2 nights in a row and all the leaves came down.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Huh, I’ve never seen those before.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: The mountains had decent color this year.
JPL
@raven:It was odd at first, but by episode 3 you adapt to it. Nikola Walker said it was difficult for her to adjust to it.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: She must have 20 arrangements made!
raven
@JPL: Since I have tried and failed everything to cancel our PBS subscription I can get it on demand!!
JPL
@satby: Temps appear to be moderating here by mid-week. In the sixties Thanksgiving Day, so I’m hoping to grill Turkey outside.
satby
@JPL: I have been, and I already want the second season to start now!
Good luck with turkey grilling. It will be back in the 40s here, so those pots are moving as soon as they’re trimmed and unstuck from the ground.
JPL
@raven: Amazon Prime has it available also.
raven
@JPL: I signed up for the PBS thingy when YouTube tv didn’t carry it. Now I can’t get rid of it!
Steeplejack
It’s cold in NoVA this morning—32° right now. I was very tired after a long “Friendsgiving” party yesterday and slept from about 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. That hasn’t happened in a while! I felt like Rip Van Winkle when I woke up. Had a cup of joe and did the big Sunday crosswords, now thinking about breakfast.
Also waiting for a non-garden thread for A.L. to get into (I hope) Samuel Alito probably leaking Supreme Court decisions (mainly Hobby Lobby).
JPL
@raven: I was going to sign-up for passport, but now I think I’ll wait.
kalakal
@raven: Heh. Funny how the ‘common’ names for plants works. I’ve always known those as honesty or chastity and what I call money plants are a type of succulent
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: That’s about what we had here.
@raven: It’s beautiful, I think I’ll take a stab at growing some.
HinTN
@raven: I’m with you on Magpie Murders. Really liking that one. You going to Edisto?
delphinium
Lovely photos Ema!
High 20s here in central NY but won’t complain about the cold-much preferable to all the snow they have been getting in Buffalo.
O. Felix Culpa
Pretty leaves, plus ducks! Thank you, Ema. We enjoyed a nice autumn in Albuquerque, with a lot more trees–and resulting colorful foliage–than we had in the high desert of New Mexico. I have a few more tulip and daffodil bulbs to plant, but baby, it’s cold outside. Not like in Buffalo, but cold enough, in southwestern context.
Agreed on Magpie Murders. Good fun. Will try Annika. Thanks to those who recommended it.
MaryL
What’s the email address for sending in photos? I have a young oakleaf hydrangea that I planted in the spring whose foliage colors are really cool.
Steeplejack
@MaryL:
I believe it’s garden-chat at balloon-juice.com. (From “Contact Us” at the top of the page.)
Gvg
Nice colors. It’s chilly early here in Florida but leaves and pine needles haven’t fallen yet. I watch for neighbors bagged leaves in order to mulch and protect my semi tender bromeliads and begonias through the colder parts of winter. We had a really dry year and I have lost plants and many fewer flowers than usual.
As for bamboo, nuke it from orbit. Neighbors have some out of control and I have to use herbicides at the edge of my property probably forever to keep it from takin over. 2 other neighbors on other sides also have to. Would like to see it banned as an invasive species and fines for people who inflict it on others, though admittedly that would be hard to do fairly. This neighbor has been rude and surly about multiple things though. Bamboo problems in Florida are common.
MaryL
@Steeplejack: Thanks! I figured it was listed somewhere on the site, but my stupid brain didn’t see it anywhere :)
Steeplejack
@Gvg:
I think there are some species of bamboo that don’t run and invade. When I lived in Atlanta there was a nursery in Alabama that I always wanted to visit but never got around to. They specialized in bamboo, knew which ones were “safe” and had a number of exotic species. I can’t even remember the name now.
Anne Laurie
@MaryL: Easiest way is to send them to me at Anne(hyphen)Laurie(at)balloon(hyphen)juice.com.
(Except, of course, using proper web formatting.)
oldgold
These photos are beautiful. As are the the photos in almost every Garden Chat thread.
What struck me about these photos is the skill of the photographer – excellent.
In high quality photography “there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality,” Alfred Stieglitz. I think Ema’s photos captured thIs subtlety.
pieceofpeace
These are lovely. And your talent is appreciated, Ema.
sab
@satby: Our resident deer ate all mine last week.
WaterGirl
@MaryL: Steep is correct!
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WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Zones 10 or higher. Not for me. :-(
I’m surprised raven can grow them. I wouldn’t have thought that GA was zone 10! (But i totally suck at geography.)
WaterGirl
Today is Deluxe Waffle Day on waffle, which I always look forward to.
Do all Waffle peeps get the deluxe waffle on the same day, or does it depend on when you do your first waffle?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I think the deluxe Waffle always comes out on Sunday.
munira
Beautiful – love the ducks and the reflections and the fallen red leaves.
Tazj
Beautiful photos, thank you.
BruceFromOhio
These are beautiful. The gardens are done for the year, everything that had to be moved inside was relocated well before this first blast of winter began. Whither Buffalo, NY.
Yutsano
Well the ducks look chuffed, as ducks are wont to be.
StringOnAStick
Ema, can you tell me anything about the boulder in the 7th photo? I can’t tell if it’s natural or manmade, and it has some interesting grooves and layers in it. It’s probably “real” rock has maybe been modified/sculpted.
The photo with the red maple leaves on stone and the tall buildings in the background is sublime.
wenchacha
@JPL: I am enjoying it quite a bit.
Dan B
@Steeplejack: The clump forming bamboo like Fargesia species can become very large after a decade or so. I planted several tall clumping types for clients who love bamboo. The biggest one got twenty feet wide and hasn’t stopped. One went to seed and died and two others got fifteen feet wide. It was okay with a one acre back yard.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: Money Plant, Lunaria, are grown as annuals in most places. They’d be fine for you. They can even be invasive if you don’t harvest them they self seed.
ema
Thank you all!
ema
@StringOnAStick:
I think it’s all natural. (I’ll take some close-up pictures of it next time.)
Funny you should mention the red leaves photo. I really liked them but wasn’t sure they would be enough. So I went out on a limb and came up with my first ever “composition.” Glad you liked it.