In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
In article ,
Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

Trees changing colour? They need frost to do that! For the past
few years, their leaves have rotted off before changing colour, due
to the wet ....

Are you sure of that? we have autumn colours in the garden, and no frost
yet. And the last few years have seen the most beautiful colours.

Yes, I am sure, but am happy to believe that it is very species and
location specific. I agree that I have seen some very good yellows
(especially oaks), but some of the other colours have been rather
disappointing.

After I posted this, I thought of Virginia Creeper and Boston Ivy which
both go an incredible red frost or no frost.

And of course there's the deep purple-red of the pear against our back
wall.

The prospect of 4 months of near-continual wet, the sort of cold
that gets to your bones, and continual darkness is too horrible to
contemplate it. Unfortunately, I can't avoid it :-(

There *are* universities in other bits of the UK, you know. You don't
*have* to live in E Anglia.

Dammit, East Anglia is one of the DRIEST parts of the UK, and it isn't
far off one of the lightest parts in winter! It is the country as a
whole I am referring to :-(

You mean - you regard Cambridge as having the *best* climate in the
UK??!!!

Ah well, it takes all sorts.
--
Kay Easton

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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm