Okay, it isn't much...yet. But the edges of several other leaves are becoming tinged with red. This is the "volunteer" Oak tree coming up in the middle of the garden. This is the first tree in my yard that changes color, the Hackberry and Pecan leaves just go from hanging on the tree to laying on the ground. It is almost 4 feet tall now so I should have a few years before the plantings there have to change from full sun to shade.
Our poison ivy changes color, but that's about all. Oh, the cypress tree is orange/rust. I guess that counts.
DR, I will ship you some of the red leaves. Just rub them all over and see what color your rash is. Might warrant a fall color picture right here.
Funny thing about poison ivy. I used to spend a good part of my summers in New York as a kid suffering from poison ivy. Got the stuff so bad one summer that I was covered head to toe with that rash. Went through quarts of calamine lotion. Took weeks for it to heal. After that bad siege of it, I was never bothered with it again. Must have built up an imunity, I guess.
I was totally immune to it until I was about 50. On a job, I insisted that I be the one to pull it out of a tree that was covered with it because I knew I didn't get it. A day later, my MD made a house call with a shot and pills, I was in such bad shape. I had it everywhere and I mean everywhere.
I do know that immunity can lose strength over time, so to this day, I avoid the stuff. Thanks for the offer, but no red samples needed. I do remember the misery it can cause. Take care. dr
My first experience and only one I hope was just a few years ago. Some had hidden itself in the middle of the shrubs at the front of the house that we were cutting down. That evening I noticed some red spots on my legs and 3 days later my legs were suddenly covered with huge blisters that itched and hurt at the same time. I avoid that corner of the yard like the plague, I do not want to go thru that again.
Anyway, back to fall colors. We have one tree here in Mayer that turns red-some kind of hardwood. Everything else just goes to yellow. Many trees here just drop leaves without any color change.
We have friends with several acres near here who go out in the fall to kill any poison oak that has come up, because it changes from innocuous green to brilliant orange-red. She had less trouble with poison ivy, but I remember it also being helpful about flagging itself in the autumn. Nice colors in your shot!
You may think it's not much but what there is of it is lovely. Poison ivy grows all over here. The birds spread it everywhere. I try to get rid of it but always just get lazy and leave a lot of it. Never had it and hope to never know that end of it.
