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You are here: Home / Garden Chats / Sunday Morning Garden Chat: November Leaves

Sunday Morning Garden Chat: November Leaves

by Anne Laurie|  November 20, 20225:17 am| 49 Comments

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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?

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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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  1. 1.

    Jeffg166

    November 20, 2022 at 6:12 am

    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.

  2. 2.

    satby

    November 20, 2022 at 6:16 am

    Central Park is always amazing to me, a bit of wilderness in the middle of one of the busiest cities in Earth. Thanks Ema!

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    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 6:16 am

    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.

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    satby

    November 20, 2022 at 6:25 am

    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. 😨

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    Geo Wilcox

    November 20, 2022 at 6:27 am

    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.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 6:39 am

    @raven: Have you been watching “Annika”?   It’s coming back for a second season.

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    Baud

    November 20, 2022 at 6:40 am

    Beautiful pictures.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 6:44 am

    Your pictures are always great and show a side of NYC that most people don’t see.

  9. 9.

    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 6:49 am

    @JPL: We tried but I just can’t hack shows where they stop and talk to the audience! Magpie Murders is good though.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 20, 2022 at 7:02 am

    Thanx for the pics Ema, very nice.

    because who doesn’t like a little bamboo forest?

    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.​

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 20, 2022 at 7:04 am

    @raven: Huh, I’ve never seen those before.

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    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 7:07 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: The mountains had decent color this year.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 7:08 am

    @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.

  14. 14.

    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 7:10 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: She must have 20 arrangements made!

     

    In the language of flowers, the plant represents honesty, money, and sincerity. In witchcraft, the honesty plant is considered protective, being thought to keep away monsters. The plant is also used in spells for prosperity, the flat pods (when ripe and silvery) resembling coins and therefore being seen as symbolising promises of wealth. In the earliest surviving recipe for a flying ointment (recorded by Bavarian physician Johannes Hartlieb circa 1440), Lunaria is included as the herbal ingredient corresponding astrologically to the moon and therefore to be picked on the lunar day of Monday.[6]

  15. 15.

    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 7:11 am

    @JPL: Since I have tried and failed everything to cancel our PBS subscription I can get it on demand!!

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    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 7:11 am

    @satby:  Temps appear to be moderating here by mid-week.   In the sixties Thanksgiving Day, so I’m hoping to grill Turkey outside.

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    satby

    November 20, 2022 at 7:12 am

    @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.

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    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 7:12 am

    @raven: Amazon Prime has it available also.

  19. 19.

    raven

    November 20, 2022 at 7:14 am

    @JPL: I signed up for the PBS thingy when YouTube tv didn’t carry it. Now I can’t get rid of it!

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    Steeplejack

    November 20, 2022 at 7:17 am

    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).

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    JPL

    November 20, 2022 at 7:22 am

    @raven:  I was going to sign-up for passport, but now I think I’ll wait.

  22. 22.

    kalakal

    November 20, 2022 at 7:37 am

    @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

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 20, 2022 at 7:40 am

    @raven: That’s about what we had here.

    @raven: It’s beautiful, I think I’ll take a stab at growing some.

  24. 24.

    HinTN

    November 20, 2022 at 8:11 am

    @raven: I’m with you on Magpie Murders. Really liking that one. You going to Edisto?

  25. 25.

    delphinium

    November 20, 2022 at 8:16 am

    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.

  26. 26.

    O. Felix Culpa

    November 20, 2022 at 8:31 am

    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.

  27. 27.

    MaryL

    November 20, 2022 at 8:45 am

    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.

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    November 20, 2022 at 8:48 am

    @MaryL:

    I believe it’s garden-chat at balloon-juice.com. (From “Contact Us” at the top of the page.)

  29. 29.

    Gvg

    November 20, 2022 at 9:00 am

    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.

  30. 30.

    MaryL

    November 20, 2022 at 9:10 am

    @Steeplejack: Thanks!  I figured it was listed somewhere on the site, but my stupid brain didn’t see it anywhere :)

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    November 20, 2022 at 9:12 am

    @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.

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    November 20, 2022 at 9:20 am

    @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.)

  33. 33.

    oldgold

    November 20, 2022 at 9:50 am

    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.

  34. 34.

    pieceofpeace

    November 20, 2022 at 10:14 am

    These are lovely.  And your talent is appreciated, Ema.

  35. 35.

    sab

    November 20, 2022 at 10:20 am

    @satby: Our resident deer ate all mine last week.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    November 20, 2022 at 10:25 am

    @MaryL: Steep is correct!

    All front-pagers can be reached using the formula:

    nym at balloon-juice.com

    If someone has a space in their nym, you add a hyphen in place of the space.

    *for mistermix whose nym changes frequently, it’s just mistermix.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    November 20, 2022 at 10:29 am

    @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.)

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    November 20, 2022 at 10:32 am

    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?

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    November 20, 2022 at 10:39 am

    @WaterGirl:

    I think the deluxe Waffle always comes out on Sunday.

  40. 40.

    munira

    November 20, 2022 at 11:07 am

    Beautiful – love the ducks and the reflections and the fallen red leaves.

  41. 41.

    Tazj

    November 20, 2022 at 11:27 am

    Beautiful photos, thank you.

  42. 42.

    BruceFromOhio

    November 20, 2022 at 11:34 am

    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.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    November 20, 2022 at 11:36 am

    Well the ducks look chuffed, as ducks are wont to be.

  44. 44.

    StringOnAStick

    November 20, 2022 at 12:22 pm

    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.

  45. 45.

    wenchacha

    November 20, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    @JPL: I am enjoying it quite a bit.

  46. 46.

    Dan B

    November 20, 2022 at 2:05 pm

    @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.

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    Dan B

    November 20, 2022 at 2:09 pm

    @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.

  48. 48.

    ema

    November 20, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    Thank you all!

  49. 49.

    ema

    November 20, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    @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.

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