Fun Facts to Know and Tell

Hidden Hills Garden

The lake always looks so blue on a sunny fall day.

I went to the Native Plant Conference last weekend, and it was awesome! I have a big blog about it peculating in my head, but I wanted to post about fall color. We have had very little rain, and I was expecting the leaves to just give up, turn brown and fall off. What a great surprise. This is one of the prettiest falls, and these last few days have been the peak.

Hidden Hills Garden

The view from my front porch. The red foliage is a dogwood and the yellow and orange are maples.

Fun fact #1: There is an event that occurs only once a year. It’s called ginko leaf drop day. All the leaves together decide, “That’s it. We’re out of here.” And they fall off in one day. I think I will add, “lie under a large ginko tree on a beautiful fall day and watch the leaves float down and cover me like a blanket” to my bucket list.

I don’t have a ginko. Other than the crape myrtle, all my trees were planted by Mother Nature, and she did a damn good job.

Hidden Hills Garden

Some of the same maples that were in the last picture, but from a different angle with the lake in the background.

 

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Hidden Hills Garden

Can you see the fingers?

 Fun fact #2: Sourwood, a native tree with brilliant red fall color, is also called ‘dead man’s fingers’.

Fun fact #3: During the pioneer days, when people died in winter while the ground was frozen, the burial had to wait until this beautiful native tree started blooming in early spring. They would pick branches to use at the service, and that is how serviceberry tree got its common name.

Hidden Hills Garden

You actually do go over the river and through the woods to get to my house, but the river is just the little creek in the lower right. The strip of red in the lower left corner is native oakleaf hydrangea.

My favorite part of the conference was the fieldtrip at the end.

Blueberry plant fall foliage

My blueberry plant has nice fall color.

There were several options, and I chose ‘Never enough Natives’. The best part about this tour of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens native plant collection was that it was lead by John Manion. I was so impressed by this man. If I lived closer to the garden, I would volunteer just to work with him. His enthusiasm and joy in nature is contagious, and I’d love to catch some more. He taught me all the fun facts in this blog.

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