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.
Ginkos are fascinating - love the live ones, and the occasional fossil Ginko or very similar leaf I find here in MT.
quixdraw wrote:
Ginkos are fascinating - love the live ones, and the occasional fossil Ginko or very similar leaf I find here in MT.
They are very long lived and as you say, date to the "Dinosaurs" or a long time ago.
Those leaves are still green.
NMGal wrote:
Those leaves are still green.
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.
Lovely photographs.
Dennis
And Goethe even wrote a poem about the Gingko Biloba leaf. Inspired by the Gingko tree in the garden of Heidelberg Castle.
QD this is great to see these trees. Thanks for sharing!
Architect1776 wrote:
The Ginko leaves 100% ALL fell in less than 48 hours.
The summer patio for outdoor eating just outside the Dining Room doors.
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
bluezzzzz wrote:
Hope all your Ginkgo trees are male and not females that bear fruit. lol!
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.
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