{"id":14514,"date":"2012-10-23T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14514"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:46:44","slug":"acer-season-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/acer-season-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer Season 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maple trees or Acers have exceptional colour in autumn which is why tourists flock to New England and the eastern seaboard to see the flaming colours. Cold nights and warm days are the conditions that help turn green leaves to vibrant colours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14515\" title=\"000_0292\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/000_0292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/000_0292.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/000_0292-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the falling temperatures, the lush green colours of summer have been replaced with vivid reds, golden yellows and browns.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Amber Leaves in Autumn    on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6283563354\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6036\/6283563354_0673f5c986.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves Autumn Amber\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do Some Leaves Turn Red<\/strong><br \/>\nLeaves naturally turn yellow as the chlorophyll breaks down and the green disappears but yellow can attracts sap-sucking aphids.<br \/>\nSome species of tree produce a bright red pigment into the leaves to confuse these insects.<br \/>\nSome trees are naturally red pigmented from the outset.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Gardeners Tips Favourite Links <\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/\">The Royal Horticultural Society <\/a> (RHS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinegardensociety.net\/\">Alpine Garden Society<\/a> (AGS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/\">BBC Gardening<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Buttery Yellow Leaves Autumn, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6283031531\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6163\/6283031531_e81b65b10d.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves Autumn 065\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardeners Top Tip<\/strong><br \/>\nPlant Acer palmatum &#8216;Matsukaze&#8217;, which opens bright bronze-red turns olive green, flushed with purple but then scarlet in autumn colour, where sun can shine through the coloured leaves to enhance the autumn effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Maples are Acers but not all Acers are Maples. What ever you call them most varieties exhibit exceptional colour late in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21323,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions\/21323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}