Tag: bracken

  • Autumn colours…

    Autumn colours…

    I was beginning to feel a bit cheated by Mother Nature this autumn – what had she done with all the traditional colours? Around here, the reddy-golds have been in very short supply. But today I realised there were other little gems to discover… The bracken fronds were dripping with diamonds… Hips were doing an…

  • Turning brown…

    Turning brown…

    We seem to be having an odd autumn around here. I watched our local avenue of horse-chestnuts change from green to dusty brown without stopping at all in any part of the yellow/gold spectrum. Red seems to have been missed out almost completely – except for the holly berries which are trying very hard to…