Monday, April 20, 2015

Photo a Day 82 - Mellow Yellow

The Autumn colours are almost done after a week of rain and winds. Luckily I captured this lovely tree before the rains. 

It is a Liriodendron tulipifera or Tulip Tree and one of my favourite trees. It's an almost perfect tree for the garden - attractive broadly conical/columnar shaped tree with glossy dark green leaves and wonderful gold autumn colour, with beautiful, unusual green flowers in Spring. Perhaps the only negative are the leaves on the lawn, but it is easy enough to rake them straight onto the rose garden

The initial colour is a clear lemon yellow which darkens as Autmn settles in.



These unusual flowers are often difficult to see as they blend in with the foliage.







Liz Needle  -  linking with "Monday Mellow Yellows".




7 comments:

  1. It is beautiful...I love their blossoms. Our neighbor has one--I need to see if there are any limbs low enough to get a shot. I don't think there is.

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  2. The leaves are such a lovely golden contrast to the green.

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  3. We have rain and winds but the yellow out my window is forsythia. Two wonderful times of year on different ends of the earth.

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  4. Vibrant, yellow autumn leaves and the flower is so intriguing.

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