Last week, I wrote that poison ivy vines were turning red and now they’re way more colorful than they had been. And also way more orange or yellow leaves are dappling trees, but that’s how it should be now that autumn is about to begin .

As you travel along major highways right now, you’ll almost certainly see that the leaves of small sumac plants are turning orange or yellowish red . They always seem to change before the leaves of bigger trees or shrubs do.

At this time of the year, some plants that went unnoticed all summer are blooming at places previously unknown. One of those plants is sweet autumn clematis, an exotic that escaped cultivation and easily germinates in all kinds of soil.

It’s a vine whose white flowers suddenly cover the tops of fences or other shrubby plants.

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