00:00Leaves already turning colors, and I think that is due to the drought.
00:04What's going on with our trees, and should we be worried about this?
00:07Yeah, so that's a great question.
00:10Leaves are turning already, and that's an indication of the drought
00:14and basically stress on the plants.
00:17So I happened to notice my neighbor's enormous old maple
00:22already starting to turn red, and right away I thought,
00:26oh my gosh, it's because it's stressed.
00:28At first I thought, oh, shoot, winter's coming,
00:31but then I realized, no, it's a stress.
00:34So that's true also if you see a lot of leaves falling right now.
00:41The trees are kind of shedding extra leaves so they don't have to support it
00:44because of the limited moisture and heat, too.
00:48It's hard because it's beautiful.
00:50You love to see the color, but then when you know it's for the wrong reason
00:53and it's too early, that's not good.
00:55Sometimes you'll see fairly small or medium-sized maples in particular
01:00along boulevards, and they're turning red in like July,
01:04and that's an indication of stress on that plant.
01:08Maples like cooler conditions.
01:10They like moist soil.
01:11They like organic soil.
01:12So we put them into our landscapes and urban sites,
01:15and it's not always the best place for them,
01:17but we do love our sugar maples in particular.
01:20We do love our sugar maples in particular.
