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The calendar flipping over to October is a reminder the annual Autumn leaf color display is on its way. The perennial question is “how will the color be this year?” Predicting the quality of the fall ...

Once again, the summer season comes to an end, and crisp autumn days are upon us. Temperatures drop, the days get shorter and vibrant colors quickly spread across the mountains and valleys as trees ...

Get yourself a big plastic container (where you usually grow some large specimens with plenty of root space). Fill that container up with fallen-down leaves, and as you are filling it up, simply stand ...

Autumn is a time of incredible beauty, when the world becomes painted in the red, orange and yelllow palette of falling leaves. But there may be a deeper purpose to these colours, and the red ones in ...

People have lots of different ideas about autumn leaves but come this time of year, come what may, they are piling up all over. They fill street gutters, blanket pathways and catch in lawns. Dropped ...

Those stunning leaves in striking shades of orange, red, yellow, and brown are damaging your vehicle’s paint. Like the discolored stains autumn’s fallen leaves imprint on concrete sidewalks and patios ...

As days grow shorter and nights grow cooler in Boulder, Colorado, the green leaves of summer have been putting on party colors. On cottonwood trees and aspens, they’re golden yellow coins. On Mapleton ...

Evolution provides the answer – or, rather, a whole lot of intriguing answers The stunning display of autumn is almost over – a few tattered yellow and russet leaves still cling to almost bare ...