Where did September go?
It may be fall, but this is still prime outdoor living time!
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This is a home Anthony and Company Construction is building in
Wendell, North Carolina, in the Dillons Run Subdivision.
I would love to have all of you come see this beauty, and
it just so happens that there is an open house this weekend!
Come by Saturday, September 30 or Sunday, October 1 from
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. to get a up close and personal look at
the quality work of Anthony and Company Construction!
See this and other great designs built by
Anthony & Company Construction - AnthCo.com
Jack Frost usually gets credit for the beautiful colors,
but, in reality, fall color is controlled by both the plant's
genetic factors and the environment. Carotene and xanthophyll
are yellow pigments produced in foliage all year; along with
chlorophyll, the green pigment.
In autumn when short days and cool temperatures slow down the
production of chlorophyll, the remaining chlorophyll breaks down
and disappears. Then the yellow pigments that have been masked by
chlorophyll show up. These pigments give the ginkgo its clear yellow
color. Redbud, larch, hickory, birch and witch hazel turn hues of yellow
and gold.
Some plants produce anthocyanins (red and purple pigments) that may
mask the yellow pigments. Some maples, dogwood, black tupelo, oaks and
winged euonymous seem to be on fire with red and purple. Anthocyanin
production increases with increased sugars in the leaves. A fall season
with sunny days and cool nights increases sugar content of the leaves and
intensifies fall reds. This also explains the two-tone effect on green ash
which exhibits yellow on leaves inside the tree and purple on the outside
leaves where they are exposed to sunlight. It also explains the amelanchier
which may be red on top branches and yellow on bottom branches.
The tans and browns of oaks are caused by tannins which accumulate as the
chlorophyll disappears.Fall color starts in September with poison ivy and
sumac and ends in November with the larches and weeping willows. Frost and
freezing temperatures will stop the coloration process and blacken the leaves.
Please take a moment to check
out other areas of our website - for instance - a
beautiful little gazebo!
Once there, you can pick a webcam from various sections of the country and take
a look at the beautiful colors of fall!
Fall Gardening Chores.....er...fun!
Autumn in America ushers in one of the most beautiful seasons
of the year, a time of harvest and maturation rituals in the
garden. To some this may merely be a time when the trees turn
to scarlet and gold, to those who labor in gardens and on farms
this is the season full of activity as the natural world prepares
itself for the long rest of winter.
It was an old custom in rural farmlands to save a bit of the harvest
for the birds. Farmers growing wheat, rye, broom corn and millet would
gather up sheaves of mixed grains and tie them to fence posts, where they
are not so vulnerable to rodents. Many grains still grow by the wayside
along with agricultural grasses and imported weeds. As autumn descends,
gather seed-laden bunches, tie them together, and once the soil freezes,
attach them to fences and tree limbs, luring winter birds naturally.
It is good to allow flowers to go to seed. The bright cone-shaped seed
heads of purple coneflower are incredibly beautiful if they aren't severed
to encourage more flower production. Birds are also lured to these, perching
on the cones and feeding with acrobatic moves that will amaze you.
Similarly, let your sunflowers go to seed along with your bee balm, hollyhock,
cornflowers, amaranths, poppies, asters and gaillardia. This encourages the
chance of their self-sowing, abiding the winter dormant only to spring up on
their own when the spring weather is right.
We never remember to press flowers and leaves during the flurry of the growing
season. But during the long winter days when letters and cards fly on postal
wings, the addition of a pressed plant speaks volumes without writing a word.
As the leaves turn, capture the most beautiful and slip them into books. Old
medical volumes make excellent pressing stacks due to their sheer size and
weight. They can be had for next to nothing at thrift stores and will hold
many seasons of specimens until you need them. You can create a four-foot
stack of books filled with pressings to tuck into the corner of a dark closet
for tidy storage. Do not fail to consider pressing weeds, grasses, ferns or
mosses; they are all magic when the world outside is snow and ice.
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