It likes light and part shade, but too much direct sun might burn leaves in dry weather. Better too, if the soil is slightly acidic. Note that it should drain very well in winter. This tree appreciates deep, cool and fertile ground. After a decade or so, orange tulip-shaped flowers appear in June. Rich, gold yellow color covers the tree in autumn, and a simple gust of wind sends them fluttering around. Leaves are unlike any other in the plant world. With a graceful silhouette (100 feet/35 m tall for cultivated specimens), an exceptional lifespan (4 to 5 centuries), and a lineage that reaches back to the first stages of plant evolution, it clearly deserves a spot of honor in the garden. It has long been considered a first-grade ornamental tree. The tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera) originates from forest colonies at the foot of the Appalachian mountain range.
In the wild, though, native specimens reach up to 75 feet tall (25 meters). Cultivars quickly grow 30 to 45 feet tall (10 to 15 m) for about 15 to 18 feet across (5 to 7 m). It’s a fabulous collector’s specimen for a garden. It follows a regular, symmetrical growing habit, doesn’t take up much space, and is too often overlooked when choosing trees to line roads and paths. This small maple of Asian lineage has golden star-shaped leaves in fall, but one cultivar has bright yellow young leaves in spring as well: ‘Aureum’. Sometimes, though, leaves turn red instead of gold yellow.Ĭappadocian maple ( Acer cappadocicum), for its part, usually paints the scenery with various shades of tan. The smaller-sized 12 to 20 feet (4 to 9 meters) field maple ( Acer campestre) is the last to shift its palette to gold in fall, an excellent addition to a freestyle hedge. The sycamore maple ( Acer pseudoplatanus) structures its leaves in a nice way, with gold yellow leaf lobes carried on a stark red petiole. Its leaves typically take on a bright yellow color in fall, except for purple-leaved cultivars. Savor this golden mantle for long weeks with the common maple species that grow naturally in our areas, such as Norway maple ( Acer platanoides) which has leaves nearly identical to those of the plane tree. Many different types of ornamental maple display brown, orange and red hues in fall – and they all go through bright yellow beforehand. Set your own garden up for these bursts of color in autumn, before deciduous trees bare their slender frame. Gold in particular flashes and shines in all its rich tan-to-orange leaves, a compelling yellow landscape that pairs well with the soft, dull light of the season. Like a show of fireworks, a culmination of powerful fiery bursts of color bursts forth from trees left and right in the scenery and in the garden. Fall is the season of nature’s grand finale, an explosion of color before a well-deserved rest.
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