Here, due to the large number of hardwoods, and the broad diversity of species, the period of fall colors spans several weeks during which, first one species and then another, take center stage. This tree is growing in front of New East. Crepe Myrtles, after providing such a great show of flowering in the summer, now turn a gorgeous golden orange color in the fall before finally giving up their leaves. These large shrubs have a wonderful appearance in any season.
Dogwood is one of the first small landscape trees to begin to change color in the Autumn.
The roundish leaves turn a red red color before even the maples. The leaves are essentially vacuumed up into huge trucks and trailers and hauled to our recycling site where they are ground and processed into some of the best leaf mulch available, and used on our countless landscape beds.