The common wisdom about how trees prepare for winter is all wrong. In the usual explanation, the leaves fade, turning yellow in October. Eventually the leaves die, falling off of the trees. Hence, we ...

It’s autumn, and that means the leaves on the trees are turning beautiful shades of yellow and red, before falling off ... are green all the time and they don’t fall off.

Koch says it's important to cut your grass to about 2 to 2.5 inches, but not all at once ... Rake well so grass can breath Fall is also when leaves on the trees begin to turn shades of orange ...

But in the fall, because of changes in the length of daylight and changes in temperature, the leaves stop their food-making process. The chlorophyll breaks down ... trees show only yellow colors.