Short Glimpse of Fall Color in Three Rivers

Fall in Three Rivers is often late, subtle, or hidden in smoke. Most of the trees are evergreens, whether a variety of oaks or even some conifers. Some of the deciduous trees are also oaks, and they simply have green leaves that fall off without any hooplah. That doesn’t stop me from hunting fall color. In fact, the few places of color really stand out against all the brown, green, and gray.

After a number of years living here, I know where to look for the prettiest colors. Here are a few of the autumn leaf displays that I anticipate each year.

Virginia Creeper
Flowering pear with a small glimpse of a brilliant Chinese pistache in the distance
Crape myrtle (some special unnamed variety)
Chinese pistache
Redbuds make yellowleaves. (Yes, I know, “yellow leaves”, not one word, but it goes with “redbud” as one word.)
Chinese pistache are the champions of fall color in Three Rivers.

By the time this post goes live, many of these leaves will be gone.

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  1. Lovely shots of one of our loveliest times of the year. But don’t forget the wild persimmons! If you rush right over before the coming, rain (as the leaves are already falling like rain, and are already all gone along the driveway), you can get still get some shots of our glowing groves of yellow-leaved wild persimmons in our “little forest” here on South Fork. 🙂 561-0111

    • Thank you, Laurie! I’ll have to wait until next year, but I sure do appreciate the offer. I have never heard of wild persimmons before. Are they edible? And what are those glorious trees just past the Sequoia Oaks turn? (I think that is where they are. . . it’s been a few years since I timed things correctly to see them.)


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