10/22, Sunday 1-2pm. No rain. I decide to check out the Fall Color tour at Hoyt. Hoyt hosts an hour long tour on many Saturdays at noon, suitable for all ages. But it was raining too much yesterday. Today's is member only, probably a more knowledgable guide. We are lucky to have Curator Martin Nicholson today, and no kids. We started at
Japanese Larch, much taller and supple than those that I'm familiar with. I I showed Martin a photo taken last Sunday. He said it's
Subalpine Larch and not
Western Larch, due to the elevation and the size. Larch is one of the 5 conifers that are deciduous. Others are
Pseudolarix (Golden Larch), 3 types of cypress:
Bold Cypress,
Dog Redwood, and
Chinese Swamp Cypress.
Under some gigantic vine maples we were told why the leaves turn color. We then walked by typical northeast US with flaming
sugar maple, and
yellow birch, and can clearly see the allelopathic effects on yellow birch. Both can be tapped for syrup. Next to some sugar maple, there's a
Japanese Beautiberry with little purple berry. Next, Ginkgo land. A lot of them, not quite yellow yet. Same with Japanese maple, the color is not quite set. Last, we visited a couple of Red Dogwood, again, the color is still turning.
10/22, Sunday 1-2pm. No rain. I decide to check out the Fall Color tour at Hoyt. Hoyt hosts an hour long tour on many Saturdays at noon, suitable for all ages. But it was raining too much yesterday. Today's is member only, probably a more knowledgable guide. We are lucky to have Curator Martin Nicholson today, and no kids. We started at Japanese Larch, much taller and supple than those that I'm familiar with. I I showed Martin a photo taken last Sunday. He said it's Subalpine Larch and not Western Larch, due to the elevation and the size. Larch is one of the 5 conifers that are deciduous. Others are Pseudolarix (Golden Larch), 3 types of cypress: Bold Cypress, Dog Redwood, and Chinese Swamp Cypress. 
Under some gigantic vine maples we were told why the leaves turn color. We then walked by typical northeast US with flaming sugar maple, and yellow birch, and can clearly see the allelopathic effects on yellow birch. Both can be tapped for syrup. Next to some sugar maple, there's a Japanese Beautiberry with little purple berry. Next, Ginkgo land. A lot of them, not quite yellow yet. Same with Japanese maple, the color is not quite set. Last, we visited a couple of Red Dogwood, again, the color is still turning.
