Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

The Ginko leaves 100% ALL fell in less than 48 hours.
The summer patio for outdoor eating just outside the Dining Room doors.

I included the Ginko trees from a couple of years ago as a reference.

Quixdraw Loc: x

Ginkos are fascinating - love the live ones, and the occasional fossil Ginko or very similar leaf I find here in MT.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

They are very long lived and as you say, date to the "Dinosaurs" or a long time ago.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Those leaves are still green.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Yes, They fell this time green. I am guessing it is the 3 hard freezes we have had in the last 3 days as they are usually all brilliant yellow as the other photo shows.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Beautiful!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Lovely photographs.

Dennis

crafterwantabe Loc: Mn

Great shots

arperry Loc: Miami/Florida

And Goethe even wrote a poem about the Gingko Biloba leaf. Inspired by the Gingko tree in the garden of Heidelberg Castle.

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

QD this is great to see these trees. Thanks for sharing!

angler Loc: StHelens England

Excellent set Chief.

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

Hope all your Ginkgo trees are male and not females that bear fruit. lol!

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Next year please post some photos of the leaves and branches close up. It is a beautiful tree. With one caveat....

The Arnold Arboretum in Boston has some huge old ginkgo trees. Decades ago my roommates and I were walking through the arboretum, and as we left we were walking down the sidewalk and encountered a stretch of sidewalk littered with splotches of slimy substance that looked like vomit and reeked really strongly of a vomit-like smell. It was so bad that we crossed the street. The really offensive crud seemed to be coming from this giant tree, the likes of which I was not familiar. We took a leaf home to look it up in a tree identification book that one of my roommates had. We discovered that it was a ginkgo. The book said that "the ginkgo tree is either a male tree or a female tree. Of note is that the female tree bears fruit which is so foul-smelling that people will cross the road to avoid walking near it'!!! That was pretty funny - and not something I will forget.

BTW: ginkgo leaves have been used to treat vascular disease and early dementia. Here is a review article on that subject: http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0901/p923.html

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

The original owner was highly educated in a broad sense.
He planted many different exotic trees here and knew what he was doing.
They are male trees.