Every year people ask me, "why haven't the leaves fallen yet ... deciduous trees bed down for winter in three stages. The first of these starts in early autumn and is linked to a chemical ...

Every autumn we revel in the beauty of the fall colors. The mixture of red ... the length of daylight and changes in temperature, the leaves stop their food-making process. The chlorophyll breaks down ...

Chlorophyll is the green chemical that captures the sunlight and this breaks down in autumn, showing the other colours underneath. The leaves fall, thousands of tons of them and three members of a ...

Store in a shady spot and the following autumn the leaves will have rotted down into a rich, crumbly mixture that can be used as a mulch around the base of plants. Let the leaves rot down for ...