On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:13:07 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

~The message
~from Roy Bailey contains these words:
~
~ Is it my imagination or are there more leaves around this autumn?
~
~ My garden, with plenty of tress around it, is absolutely inundated with them
~ and I am having to make a very big wire netting pen to hold them all.
~
~ My theory is that the fine, hot summer has produced more growth on all the
~ branches and therefore more leaves.
~
~Nah: they're just all falling off at the same time rather than a
~staggered drop.
~

Glad you said this: I don't think it is your imagination, simply
because I've just come in from hoovering my sycamores and I have 9
binliners full, all nicely shredded and tamped down.

Last year I had 5, most of which dropped off in the first week of
December. This year at least we've had earlier frosts and they have
just been finished off by the storm. Maybe it's a combination of both
effects. A lot got blown away last night so they're someone else's
problem!

I haven't even hoovered one of the side beds either. I like to leave
one for the worms to dine in :-)

Now all I've got to do is convey them to the garage, water them and
forget about them for ~2 years.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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