We have several large London Plane trees that we planted in 2012, and they are now 30 feet tall. They have a quirk that around the second week of August, half of their leaves from the inside out, yellow and drop almost over night. Then they are done for awhile until cold temperatures begin turning all of the leaves. They did not do this the past two years, but this year the middle one did. It was very quick. We noticed the color change one day, and then about two days later, overnight, all of the yellowed leaves dropped all at once.
That's eight leaf sucker bags full of leaves. In the fall we will blow leaves into the woods, but there is still too much tall grass blocking that route, so sucking them up was the only way to go. We put a ring of wire fencing in the corner of the compost deck to keep them. They make great compost.
It will still be a few weeks before other trees begin to drop their leaves in any serious volume and smaller quantities can still be mulched into the lawn with the lawn mower. Our weather is now changing to unseasonably cool so maybe we will have another bright, colorful fall full of blue skies, yellow leaves and afternoon camp fires.
Another thing I am looking forward to this fall is decorating with my pumpkins. I have two more good sized ones for a total of five and another working on it.
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