When can we expect the peak fall colors on our foliage?

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – As of Monday, fall is officially here and we have already experienced many changes.

Cooler temperatures and wetter weather have all welcomed changes from the hot, dry summer that we’ve seen this year. But these changes can also have a negative effect, especially on our trees in the community.

From the extreme floods in the spring to the drought in the summer, these drastic changes can and have taken a toll on the health of our trees.

“The extreme rains that we had in the spring, they cause trees to grow a lot of roots,” said Jared Weaver, an arborist for the city of Bowling Green. “Often at the surface of the soil, which creates the problem when it dries up later on in the summer, like it has this year. That creates, a drought condition, which a lot of those finer r