Pretty autumn foliage watch, have you got pretty autumn foliage?

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The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 6:34am, 1 Sep 2021 8,215 posts	0 The Great Raemondo It's September now, that means it's nearly autumn. Have your local trees got the message? There's one round the corner from our house that I call Over Eager Colin. I haven't checked on him yet this year, but he's usually the first to go. I'll see how he's doing this weekend.
The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 6:49am, 1 Sep 2021 8,216 posts	0 The Great Raemondo Here he was on the 20th of September the other year - already well advanced in his autumn colours.
Night-owl Sep 2021 1:50pm, 1 Sep 2021 37,728 posts	0 Night-owl Great thread idea. We have lots of Horse chestnuts round here specially nice this time of year where the conkers form. Here's a baby one though not sure how old
Night-owl Sep 2021 1:51pm, 1 Sep 2021 37,729 posts	0 Night-owl And beautiful colour Rae Very pretty
The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 2:05pm, 1 Sep 2021 8,219 posts	0 The Great Raemondo Thanks! Colin's a good one. There's a row of four or five of the same type, all of which go that gorgeous red, but Colin (on one end) always goes first. They have fab spikey seed pod things (definitely not chestnuts of any kind), too. I should try to work out what they are, really. Love your baby horse chestnut. There are a couple around the mini play park at the end of our road, I guess something like 30 years old as that's when most of the street was built, which are much much bigger, so that must be only 5 or so? (or perhaps the placement of the play park here was determined by the trees rather than vice versa and they're actually much older). I really love it when I start to find proper conkers - we had a mini conker tournament at work two years ago. Perhaps we need another one soon. A neighbour has a sweet chestnut tree that drops quite a lot into our garden. I quite like sweet chestnut puree, but I intensely don't like dealing with the spikey cases and stabbing myself under the thumb nail peeling the chestnuts, but I feel terribly wasteful just throwing them into the green bin. I might start throwing them back over the neighbor's fence.
LazyDaisy Sep 2021 9:48pm, 1 Sep 2021 34,140 posts	0 LazyDaisy I'm waiting for my Cornus 'Midwinter Fire' to do its stuff in the autumn - wonderful butter yellow leaves, and if the sun's out, even better. I think your baby horse chestnut is a baby sweet chestnut Owlie so those chestnuts (once you've got into the spiny case, as Rae says) would be good to eat 😊
The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 9:59pm, 1 Sep 2021 8,222 posts	0 The Great Raemondo Ey, you're right lazda, I didn't look at it closely before. Evil spiney gits, they are, N-o, be careful.
Night-owl Sep 2021 10:11pm, 1 Sep 2021 37,735 posts	0 Night-owl Thank you LD didn't know that there's a couple of streets that have big fully grown horse chestnuts I just thought they were recently planted and surprised that they grew the horse chestnuts (conkers) so soon Yes have to be careful this time of year many do end up on the ground
The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 6:42pm, 12 Sep 2021 8,279 posts	0 The Great Raemondo I finally remembered to take a picture of Colin and his mates. Sam and I disagree about which he is, I say the one furthest away from the camera here - which might mean I've given him a complex by calling him 'over eager' as this year that's the least red by far - but Sam reckons he's the one closest to the camera. Either way, some excellent early autumnal work from the squad.
The Great Raemondo Sep 2021 6:40pm, 27 Sep 2021 8,349 posts	0 The Great Raemondo One of the horse chestnuts by the primary school is starting to get quite colourful - sadly I'd have had to stand in the middle of a moderately busy road to get the angle with the sunset in as well, but it's definitely feeling autumnal here now!