Just been walking round my gardens and it is really starting to look quite
autumnal. My mature sycamore tree now has a lot of leaves turning brown/yellow.
Grass is slowing down growth and some of the shrubs in the deciduous border are
losing their leaves. In the distance leaves on upper branches of trees have a
brown tinge. Plenty of debris (twigs, small branches) after today's winds add to
the autumnal feel as well as the temperature of 11C. Still with the earth
temperatures some 2-3 deg C lower than last year it is perhaps not too
surprising.

Will.
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Will Hand wrote:

Just been walking round my gardens and it is really starting to look quite
autumnal. My mature sycamore tree now has a lot of leaves turning
brown/yellow. Grass is slowing down growth and some of the shrubs in the
deciduous border are losing their leaves. In the distance leaves on upper
branches of trees have a brown tinge. Plenty of debris (twigs, small
branches) after today's winds add to the autumnal feel as well as the
temperature of 11C. Still with the earth temperatures some 2-3 deg C lower
than last year it is perhaps not too surprising.



I was going to post something similar earlier. I have noticed a lot of
trees are starting to show yellows and oranges here. and the bracken is
rapidly turning brown (this usually happens in late September/ early
October.

I can't remember an earlier onset of autumn.


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Brian Wakem (Fleet)

Brian Wakem wrote:
Will Hand wrote:

Just been walking round my gardens and it is really starting to look
quite autumnal. My mature sycamore tree now has a lot of leaves
turning brown/yellow. Grass is slowing down growth and some of the
shrubs in the deciduous border are losing their leaves. In the
distance leaves on upper branches of trees have a brown tinge.
Plenty of debris (twigs, small branches) after today's winds add to
the autumnal feel as well as the temperature of 11C. Still with the
earth temperatures some 2-3 deg C lower than last year it is perhaps
not too surprising.



I was going to post something similar earlier. I have noticed a lot
of trees are starting to show yellows and oranges here. and the
bracken is rapidly turning brown (this usually happens in late
September/ early October.

I can't remember an earlier onset of autumn.

The Boston Ivy opposite us has been turning red for a couple of weeks
now....

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:28:09 +0100, Brian Wakem wrote:

I was going to post something similar earlier. I have noticed a lot of
trees are starting to show yellows and oranges here. and the bracken is
rapidly turning brown (this usually happens in late September/ early
October.

No sign here of the bracken turning (an unlikely north/south reversal)
but the rowan in the garden has a mass of red berries and the silver
birch are looking a bit tired
..
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Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

Brian Wakem wrote:

I was going to post something similar earlier. I have noticed a lot of
trees are starting to show yellows and oranges here. and the bracken is
rapidly turning brown (this usually happens in late September/ early
October.

My nettles are all dying off. I haven't noticed before when nettles
normally do this, but I have such a fine crop here in such vast
quantities that I can't fail to notice this year.
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL
http://sanday.org.uk/weather

Steve Loft wrote:
Brian Wakem wrote:

I was going to post something similar earlier. I have noticed a lot of
trees are starting to show yellows and oranges here. and the bracken is
rapidly turning brown (this usually happens in late September/ early
October.

My nettles are all dying off. I haven't noticed before when nettles
normally do this, but I have such a fine crop here in such vast
quantities that I can't fail to notice this year.

Never short of ingredients for a warm and nutritious soup then Steve ;-)
(except, of course, when the nettles die off . . . . . . . .)

Neil wrote:
My nettles are all dying off. I haven't noticed before when nettles
normally do this, but I have such a fine crop here in such vast
quantities that I can't fail to notice this year.

Never short of ingredients for a warm and nutritious soup then Steve
;-) (except, of course, when the nettles die off . . . . . . . .)

The young tips make a splendid spinach too!... Normandy butter with the sea
salt crystals in & black pepper on nettle tops freshly wilted in a tad of
olive oil and a smidge of water... beautiful!

Les


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"Will Hand" wrote in
:

Just been walking round my gardens and it is really starting to look
quite autumnal. My mature sycamore tree now has a lot of leaves
turning brown/yellow. Grass is slowing down growth and some of the
shrubs in the deciduous border are losing their leaves. In the
distance leaves on upper branches of trees have a brown tinge. Plenty
of debris (twigs, small branches) after today's winds add to the
autumnal feel as well as the temperature of 11C. Still with the earth
temperatures some 2-3 deg C lower than last year it is perhaps not too
surprising.

With the distinct lack of summer this year, I didn't think I was looking
forward to winter particularly much, but now it's got slightly colder, I'm
kind of looking forward to it.

Still personally going for a roaring westerly one, but there's no science
behind that. Just feeling that the UK is due a sizeable blow in the near
future!

Richard

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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"Will Hand" wrote in
:

Just been walking round my gardens and it is really starting to look
quite autumnal. My mature sycamore tree now has a lot of leaves
turning brown/yellow. Grass is slowing down growth and some of the
shrubs in the deciduous border are losing their leaves. In the
distance leaves on upper branches of trees have a brown tinge. Plenty
of debris (twigs, small branches) after today's winds add to the
autumnal feel as well as the temperature of 11C. Still with the earth
temperatures some 2-3 deg C lower than last year it is perhaps not too
surprising.

With the distinct lack of summer this year, I didn't think I was looking
forward to winter particularly much, but now it's got slightly colder, I'm
kind of looking forward to it.

Still personally going for a roaring westerly one, but there's no science
behind that. Just feeling that the UK is due a sizeable blow in the near
future!

Richard

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I noticed that Richard, but thought it might be due to near zero rainfall
for over a month as well?

Dave