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Color spotter Cynthia Shedd provides the final fall color report before Thanksgiving Day, reporting that there’s still color to appear at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, though the national park is vibrant with red, orange and yellow. Butte County: Past Peak- Butte County- Don’t worry, be happy! Though it’s past peak in Butte County, there is […]
75 — 100% — Urban Forests — Northern California’s urban forests have been peaking this past week with majestic London planetree and ancient Chinese pistache spreading colored branches across Land Park in Sacramento. The San Francisco Bay Area is dressed with red, yellow, gold and orange in time for Thanksgiving Day reunions. Though holiday lights […]
75 — 100% — LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden –Frank McDonough cautions to look but don’t touch the brilliant crimson Japanese fruit wax tree whose oils can cause an alergic reaction much like its cousin, poison oak. Still, it is lovely to look at. Frank reports that the arboretum and garden are at 75% […]
Ginkgo trees are gold and bold in Redding, according to an article posted today by the Redding Record. The showy trees are described as, “Pretty, prehistoric and sometimes putrid…” “tough enough to withstand an atomic bomb; and old enough to be called living fossils.” “The trees have quite a track record,” the Record reports, having […]
Color spotters Megan and Cynthia report from the Shasta Cascade that color has peaked in many parts of this vast region of northeast California, though spots of color can be seen in several places. Butte County: 75- 100% — Butte County- Butte County is at peak. A plethora of vibrant reds and yellows that are […]
75-100% — Urban Forests — Urban areas throughout California are glowing colorfully in time for Thanksgiving Day. Mild weather has contributed to keeping leaves and berries on the trees. The colorful show has now descended among exotic trees to below 1,000 ft in elevation with Chinese pistache showing flame red, crabapples yellow to orange-red, Sycamores […]
50 — 75% — LA County Arboretum — Frank McDonough reports that of the trees to show color at the LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, half of their leaves have turned. Visiting an arboretum is a great way to see what color appears on a tree and when it appears… useful in planning a […]
There’s a mixed report from the northeast corner of California, with color past peak at the highest elevations, peaking at mid elevations and still coloring up at lower elevations. Butte County: 30-50%- Butte County- It’s going to be a late, but spectacular fall for Butte County. Reds and oranges are really beginning to POP, but the […]
Michael Frye reports this week that last Thursday’s light dusting of snow provided both beautiful images of color peeking through the dusting and the last of the peak in Yosemite Valley. Here’s a report taken from his blog: Past Peak — Yosemite Valley — “The next question is… what did the storms do to the fall […]
Color spotter Jyoti Suravarjula sent these lovely photographs taken in late October near Gull Lake. Color in the Eastern Sierra has now disappeared, though Jyoti’s photographs remind us of the beauty that was to be seen in one of the longest lasting shows of fall color in recent years. 15 — 30% — Santa Clara […]