By now, if you have saved any leaves that fell from your trees last fall, they will be mulch around your precious perennials or your tree trunks or your hard-hit-by-this-winter’s-freezing-spells evergreen shrubs, shrubs that may have given up the ghost. Luckily for me, the leaves I saved from November 2023 are not mulch, but instead are scans in my computer. Granted the leaf images are a little blurry here and there, but they’re still identifiable.
Ginkgo biloba ‘Saratoga’
Sorbus decorus
Acer griseum
Malis ‘Thunderchild’
MATURE HEIGHT 15 to 20 feet (4 to 5 metres)
MATURE SPREAD 12 to 15 feet (3 to 5 metres)
Amelanchier alnifolia
MATURE HEIGHT 12 to 15 feet (4 to 5 metres)
MATURE SPREAD 6 feet (2 metres)
LIFESPAN 20-25 years
MATURE HEIGHT 15 feet (5 metres)
MATURE SPREAD 15 feet (5 metres)
Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’
MATURE HEIGHT 40-50 feet (12 to 15 metres)
MATURE SPREAD 30-40 feet (9 to 12 metres)
Syringa reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’
MATURE HEIGHT 20-30 feet (6-9 metres)
MATURE SPREAD 15-20 feet (4.5-6 metres)
LIFESPAN 45 years
Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Harve’
MATURE HEIGHT Up to 50 feet (15 metres)
MATURE SPREAD Up to 35 feet (10 metres)