The mixture of red, purple, orange and yellow is the result of chemical processes ... of varying amounts of the chlorophyll residue and other pigments in the leaf during the fall season. As the fall ...

Is early fall leaf color caused by leaf disease ... tulip poplar, osage orange, and a whole host of other tree species simply cut the cord. They drop their leaves now to cut their (water) losses.

When I saw the fall color on dwarf fothergilla, Fothergilla gardenii, I knew I wanted to grow it in my garden. Hardy in Zones 5 through 9, it displays yellow, red and orange leaves all on one shrub.

As the first orange leaf drifts to the ground and you feel chilly enough to wear a jumper with your outfit, you might feel that autumn is on the way There are hundreds of thousands of people ...

Gardner said, by mid-to-late October, the fall leaf color should work its way down those mountain areas and into areas of lower elevation. ExploreFall, a website previously featured on WRAL ...