{"id":2172,"date":"2011-04-05T04:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2011-04-05T04:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:54:59","slug":"natures-first-green-is-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s First Green is Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2262\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8549.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2262\" title=\"At the Vietnam Memorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8549-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8549-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8549-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8549.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maroon new leaves, vivid green grass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am struck by how many first leaves are some shade of red or  maroon.\u00a0 I would have thought it an obvious thing that new leaves are  green.\u00a0 Many, such as weeping willow, are.\u00a0 A lot of others, at least  many of the ones emerging now, are reddish.\u00a0 Driving down the highway a  couple weeks ago, I was struck by how many trees were surrounded by what looked  like a red cloud.\u00a0 In a way, the scene was almost like late fall, bare  branches with red interspersed, except for the size of the leaves.\u00a0 The  collective maroonishness of many early spring leaves is a wine-colored  haze, poured from trees too long corked.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If I think about it, red foliage isn&#8217;t as unusual as it at first  sounds.\u00a0 Even in my own garden red leaf lettuce nobly represents this  family.\u00a0 Another red leaved plant, the red-tipped photinia I first encountered living in North Carolina many years ago.\u00a0 All its new foliage is red, which gradually turns green with age.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2263\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8552.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2263\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2263\" title=\"Red Tiped Photinias\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8552-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8552-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8552-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8552.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red all year but even more in spring <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am struck by how many first leaves are some shade of red or maroon.\u00a0 I would have thought it an obvious thing that new leaves are green.\u00a0 Many, such as weeping willow, are.\u00a0 A lot of others, at least &hellip; 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