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A few of my JM are starting to pull their weight. I also received some trident seeds from our group meeting which are showing some nice colour in their first Autumn. And lastly a JM pre bonsai I'm trying to thicken up a bit for a few years - I've posted this one a few weeks ago, bragging about how my moss is better than my trees. Sent from my SM-G570F using Tapatalk

My fantastic new Crepe Myrtle from PeterB’s collection has started to turn on the colour.

Last week Yesterday Today, other side of tree: My other crepe is still quite dark green but the edges are starting to turn red.

Not much colour around here, and quite late.

Flowering Pear in the garden: Little Japanese. Maple: Hornbeam: Crepe Myrtle, nearly done: And because not all autumn colour is deciduous, E. meliodora: and E. bridgesiana: (Me? Obsessed? NEVER!!)

Gavin

Beautiful colours Gavin, but in particular, your display stands are outstanding.

Here’s my young Japanese Maple forest; muted colours only. These photos are a couple of days apart and it’s slowly changing. That’s said, hardly spectacular and the colours are ‘muddied’ by leaf mould but hey, I’m posting the pics anyway.



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Slowly slowly my trees are getting better colour. Wisterias are all yellow, as are my prunus. My tridents have held on the longest and are just starting properly now, with my shishigashira JM motherstock plant not far behind it now either.

One of root over rock tridents is finally getting some colour. A mix of some bright reds, blood reds and strong yellows
Also this ginkgo seedling i grew last year has gone such a pale yellow it is almost white. Very pretty colour indeed

My Sapium (had a name change since I knew it).

Being redeveloped after a near death experience - gorgeous colours.

This is as good as it’s getting at my house I think. Crepe again.
Progress:
17th May, 19th May, 26th May, 30th May: The other one is still quite green!

My crepe Myrtle and
Chinese elm

Sammy D wrote:My crepe Myrtle and
Chinese elm

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That first crepe myrtle is looking very nice

A couple more quick ones from the garden

One of the last weepers seed grew to have leaves on it, still a lovely colour Shishgashira motherstock tree looking stunning at the moment with the yellow/orange hues really helping to earn it it's common name of Lion's Mane Maple!

MJL wrote:Here’s my young Japanese Maple forest; muted colours only. These photos are a couple of days apart and it’s slowly changing. That’s said, hardly spectacular and the colours are ‘muddied’ by leaf mould but hey, I’m posting the pics anyway.

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Howdy, Just following up this post - some nice colours, eventually. Now to the hard work of making a proper, ramified bonsai forest ....

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Bonsai teaches me patience.
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Autumn arrives in winter at my joint - better late than never!

I'm in Brisbane, so rarely see a lot of colour, but for some reason this year there's been quite a bit. I can only surmise that these have coloured up because we had one week of sub 5° nights....and all of these trees are in unprotected areas where they get full sun, and full cold.

Couple of the last plants of mine that still have autumn colour

Arakawa Japanese maple giving me a really nice mix of yellow/orange and red
My Gingo stump finally has decided it is time to commit to the autumn colours, and is golden now. You can just make out the cork bark elm in the background also going yellow