Autumn Leaf Colors
By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator
This season’s autumn colors have been exceptional. Shortened day lengths, sunny and warm days, cool nights, and adequate soil moisture provide the perfect conditions to showcase autumn’s greens, golds, reds, oranges and coppers in our trees and shrubs. Fall leaf color is a dynamic process, influenced by the decline and production of pigments within leaves. It isn’t unusual for leaf colors to fluctuate throughout fall or to have a myriad of colors at the same time on one tree.
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