Tag Archives: autumn colour

2015, the Best Autumn Colour for Many Years

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Francis Pryor

We are told that this year’s astonishingly good autumn colours were down to cold nights and not too many strong winds, that would bring the leaves down. But for some reason, too, the colours have been incredibly subtle. Yes, the … Continue reading →

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Tidy and Oh So DULL!

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I hate, loathe and detest unnecessary tidiness. Fine, be tidy in your workplace, or in the kitchen, where you need to know where certain key things are kept, but why is it that we English have to extend our tidiness … Continue reading →

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Early Autumn – concupiscence and clichés

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I suppose it’s inevitable, as more and more of the population moves indoors and experiences reality through digital media, that everything we take for granted now, will eventually become labelled and branded. So autumn is increasingly becoming the season of … Continue reading →

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Late Autumn Colour

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Francis Pryor

God, what a boring title! It’s the sort of thing you read in bad gardening magazines and the article then tells you how to grow the plants that the nursery trade is desperately trying to get rid of before the … Continue reading →

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Autumn Leaves

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Francis Pryor

I suppose it’s natural to want to extol  autumn colour. After all, the main flush of changing leaves is relatively rapid – usually no more than a week or two after the first frosts. In North America the fall happens … Continue reading →

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