Autumn is not much to brag about here. Not only is the change of the weather mild, but foliar color is limited beyond synthetic landscapes. Redwoods are only a bit messier now because they did not shed as much as typical while summer weather remained atypically mild. Fireplaces at work get a bit more use, but only for ambience. A few autumn flowers bloom between summer flowers and winter flowers.

1. Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood is evergreen. Its foliage does not turn colorful for autumn. It certainly sheds though. It sheds mostly while the weather is warmest and driest through summer. However, without such weather, it sheds more as summer ends.

2. Firewood is too mixed for identification of all species that might be involved with this picture. It comes from the various trees that must be removed and pruned here. Because fires at work are more for ambience than heat, the quality of such wood is unimportant.

3. Anemone hupehensis var. japonica, Japanese anemone exhibits why I find ‘Honorine Jobert’ to be so appealing. This is the only anemone here, and it is ghastly pallid, neither pure white nor pinkish. It actually seems to be slightly grayish. Ick! I learned this species as simply Anemone japonica, but now learn that it is supposedly Eriocapitella japonica.

4. Chrysanthemum X morifolium, is more discolored than anemone, but is instead quite pretty. It was likely white when left here after a wedding. It now lives in a garden nearby.

5. Tagetes patula, marigold is as customary for autumn as chrysanthemum is. Its bright yellow and orange are splendid. This one though looks too much like Ronald McDonald.

6. Tagetes patula, marigold should look more like these. Brownish red is traditional too. Marigold is the official flower of Dia de los Muertos of the first and second of November.

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17 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Autumn in the Redwoods”

  1. I don’t know why this post, and not some other, reminds me of John Muir’s writings, but it does. If any readers of this blog have never read any of JM’s work, let me urge you to make it be the next thing on your reading list. JM was one of the most extraordinary people to ever make North America home. Farmer, mechanic, ornithologist, botanist, geologist, glaciologist, and much, much more, always hungry for experience and knowledge, gifted with incredible artistic sensibilities and a writer of increible talent. For a glimpse into who the person was, I highly recommend his “Story of My Boyhood and Youth”. For the price of a cup of coffee, get yourself to abebooks and get started! https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=The%20Story%20of%20My%20Boyhood%20and%20Youth&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results

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    1. Yes, that is why I find it to be so enviable. I know that I could easily purchase it, but that would be cheating. If I want more anemones somewhere else, I would just relocate pieces of what is already here. I suspect that it might develop better pink color in a different location, so should at least give it the opportunity to do so. Japanese anemone is rare here. I have not seen any others in years. I encountered a bright white cultivar in Oakland in about 2007 or so. I should have gotten a piece of it. I know that I will eventually encounter another, perhaps in the Pacific Northwest. Anemones are still dormant when I go there, but I do not need to see flowers to believe that it is white, . . . or pink, but not this weird pallid grayish pink.

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    1. Although I envy white anemone, such as ‘Honorine Jobert’, I do not need any. I should try to relocate pieces of what is already here to see if the pinkish color improves elsewhere. If I happen to encounter white anemone out and about, regardless of the cultivar, I would like to procure a piec, but there is no rush.

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  6. What lovely shades of brown and ‘Ick.’ I’m still chuckling. For someone who loves plants so much, it is great to see a post like this one. Wonderful when we don’t need to take ourselves and our work so seriously. Thank you. I hope that winter will bring more beauty to your corner of the world.

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    1. Oh, it is always beautiful! I am merely unimpressed by the icky pallid, . . . whatever color that is, . . . or is not. Most who see it likely find it to be appealing. I select no colors here because I am so inept with color. That is why white is my favorite color. Some of my favorite flowers are not white, but are my favorites because I enjoy growing them, or because of where they came from. Heck, I even like those gaudily bright pink naked ladies because I have grown them for so long, and because my first came from my great grandmother’s garden.

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