[Cambium]

How are you guys doing with colors?


November 4, 2017

My backyard Maple tree is still Fully Green!





Most of the area is either dull colors or bare now though. Some pockets of green still around


Leaves pretty much look like this.. Horrible looking fall this year.

[retiree2011]

I left Ct a week ago, but could tell it would not be a good foliage year. Leaves in my area stayed green turned brown and fell. Even the maple trees were a disappointment. But I have hundreds of photos of foliage in years past that I can look at and savor when I get some free time,

[mr.rydell]

At the top of the Heublein Tower 10/21/17. Pretty pleasing I think.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by mr.rydell

At the top of the Heublein Tower 10/21/17. Pretty pleasing I think.

Seems rather muted. Nice view though.

[mr.rydell]

Personally I was happy w/ the foliage this year. It's not a trip up 91 to Vermont but I'm easy to please.

[Cambium]

From July 26, 2017....

Originally Posted by AntonioR

Ok guys, let me get my composure.

*Breathing in*

*Breathing out*

I was driving down Summer Street in Stamford and glimpsed at a large old maple tree. Oh my God!!!! Some of the leaves have the orange/red tint coming out. Is this tree kidding?!! Please tell me this is only a nightmare and I will wake up soon. Fall in July!!! First a couple of cold days (yes, for this time of the year those 60's are down right cold!) and now this!!!

I also noticed that one of my neighbors bought a couple of Foxtail palms and put them in their backyard. That did got my blood pressure down. Stupid maple tree!!!!

Connecticut, you can do as you wish during the rest of the year, but don't mess with my Summer!!! No cold air and definitely no leaves changing colors in July!! Please!!!!

So apparently this year was a reminder that we can have a cool wet Summer/August but if September is well above normal AND very dry with no rains and carrys over into October with Record warm and dryness....it ruins the colors and makes us late...

Originally Posted by Cambium

I am hesitant to say the ones you saw in Stamford is "the start". Understand we barely got 3-4 straight days without any precip since March. It's happened like 6 times only. So its been cloudy. It's been wet. And now it's been cool.

Being that its July I am going to say that is stress.

If we can continue these cool days in August we'll start to see more and more change. Typically don't see the start of it until end of August. So it's a bit too soon now. Way too soon.

One of the dullest colored year I remember and Late by like 3 weeks. We should be thinned out and bare by now especially with the winds we're having today; not this!


Nov 10, 2017
















Not even the burning bushes are fully turned yet

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Stylo

Cambium, when do you think foliage will peak in NW CT this year?

Originally Posted by Cambium

Predicting that is like predicting weather 3 weeks away. I can only say this... IF we continue this pattern we've had for past 2 weeks, I would say Early October peaking there? I think we'll be 2-3 weeks early this yr. Maybe 1-2.

Guess that "IF" became a DIDNT. lol.


The pattern completely changed right after those posts to a Dry Hot one. Totally ruined things.


Now it seems like we've reversed the pattern in November. Little too late.


Our peak this year was late but to be honest I don't even know when it happened? leaves were brittle, browned, colorless and a lot dropped before peak happened I think.. The timing was weird this year.

[LINative]

Oh hell guys, this happens almost every year. Every year, people complain its not a good year for the leaves for so and so reasons.

But guess what? The leaves are still beautiful. They might not be spectacular as some years but it is still a beautiful time a year. I thank God that I live in the Northeast this time a year.

[ads94]

WOW! I really didn't believe many of Camb's photos as being representative of how lower FFC is. I drove 95 this morning to NYC and I am honestly dumbfounded by how much green there is. What the heck!

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by ads94

WOW! I really didn't believe many of Camb's photos as being representative of how lower FFC is. I drove 95 this morning to NYC and I am honestly dumbfounded by how much green there is. What the heck!

Yeah, pretty insane..


Few pics from Greenwich this morning.. November 11, 2017

I mean there is shade like its summer only that the sun angle is so much lower. lol







Also in Greenwich with a close up of the leaves.. A lot of leaves are now burnt and curling because of the hard freeze.





Dull