ADVERTISEMENTWe have short weather memories, but I don’t recall a fall that’s been this warm for so long. The 'Growing Together' PodcastHas this warm fall affected plants, including trees, shrubs and perennials? Vegetable gardeners have been grateful for continuing weeks of ideal tomato ripening weather with warm days and warm nights. Fall color doesn’t seem to be advancing on many of our landscape shrubs. The long fall allowed the bloom to happen, uninterrupted by frost, but disease stress was the initial cause, not the long fall.