The fall colors of large woodland trees seemed a bit more muted and more sporadic compared with previous years, likely due to the drought. For example, in some woodlands, shagbark hickory leaves ...

The glorious show of autumn color is transitioning to the familiar browns and barren trees that will continue through winter. Two Purdue experts recently offered advice on what to do with fallen ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The fall season is quickly wrapping up and, as the winter chill inches closer, the life cycle of fall colors will end, leaving trees with only their branches left to stand. Throughout ...

Strolling in my neighborhood the other day, I saw two trees with autumn foliage that I thought would have made the most compelling combination had they been planted side by side. One was a ginkgo tree ...

Purdue Landscape Report: It’s finally October, and we should be enjoying lovely fall temps and colors. While some of the trees are changing, it’s not necessarily due to the change in seasons. As I ...

When the last shimmering autumn leaves drift to the ground, it doesn’t just mark a seasonal change. It’s also a turning point in the global carbon cycle, as forests and other plants start to emit ...

Although the chemistry of autumn colours is well understood, there is an ongoing and lively debate among scientists about why trees evolved their vivid autumn colours in the first place. Driving north ...

I was just musing on this idea. Last year, in the northern Utah area, they had a very warm autumn up until about November. Then a very unusually wet, heavy snowfall came and because the trees had kept ...

The time when trees change color and then drop their leaves is a signpost of the year, a mark of the familiar cycle of the seasons. Early to mid-October is typically the height of the color in ...

Shifting seasons means that damage may be coming to your car's paint job, and not just from the usual suspects like road salt and bright sunshine. As the trees shed their autumn colors, leaves may ...