Fall days and nights are getting warmer which is changing when trees stop producing chlorophyll to get ready for the winter, said Aaron Bergdahl, a forest pathologist with the Maine Forest Service.

Plant sassafras tree where it will have room to grow into a large shade tree that will offer spring flowers and brilliant fall ... Garden Green Sassafras thrives in heat and cold. Count on it to grow ...

The blue-green "berries" are a magnet for birds in the winter garden. With radiant fall foliage and camellia-like blooms, stewartia is a favorite flowering tree for the Southern landscape.