blue-green

New growth, both stems and leaves, emerges flushed with burgundy before maturing to a dusky blue green in summer.

Foliage color ranges from deep green to a glaucous blue green.

It’s difficult to imagine a more pastoral landscape: rolling hills that shade from blue green to bright red, covered bridges and some of the most fertile farmland in the world.

About a quarter of the lakes examined actually showed increasing oxygen in surface waters, which Rose says is a bad sign because it’s likely attributable to increased algal blooms — sudden growth of blue green algae.

He had been ready to give up and turn back when he finally came over the ridge and saw, in the late evening, the haze of blue green.