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A Year at Padley Wood - Late Autumn

Summer's dying embers are still to be discerned amidst Autumn's glory. Low-angled light creates, with the air moisture at a lower temperature, a suffusion of incandescent haze that defines the almost agonised longing for this time of year never to end.

But despite a lack of severe frosts, nights are cold enough for the first fires, accompanied by a glass of sloe gin, to prepare us for Winter's first touch.

Cotoneaster and honeysuckle
Virginia creeper
Cyclamen in sunlight
A smorgasbord of seed-heads
Sedum spectabile
Michaelmas daisy

Sneak peek
Leaf-raking time
Honesty seed pods
Late-flowering hebe
A much-favoured colour combo
Pinks and purples

Autumn colours
Contrasting seed-heads
Lysimachia punctata foliage
Pyrocanthus berries
Fatsia japonica flowers
Old foliage

Dierama seed-pods
Windchimes
Lobelia tupa
After the rain...
Fatsia again
Mellow light


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