Autumn leaf red12/31/2023 Intrepid conker seeker? Work your way along the Horse Chestnut-abundant Saville Road, to Westbury Park Road for a generous bounty. Head to the ‘Sea Walls’ end for spectacular far-reaching views out towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Leigh Woods and the Severn Estuary. Image - Tyntesfield, credit Chris Watts The DownsĪn enormous area of protected parkland in Bristol, The Downs is the perfect place for an autumnal stroll. Discover copper-coloured, yellow-y and deep red leaves on a stroll around the grounds, or check out the gorgeous bounty from the kitchen garden. Marvel at the colours of autumn at Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic Mansion surrounded by characterful gardens, woodland, rolling parkland and hundreds of rare and beautiful trees. Image - Westonbirt Arboretum, credit Forestry Commission Tyntesfield Get a spectacular birds-eye view of the tree canopy from the suspended tree top walkway. From the enchanting flaming red Japanese Maples, to the vibrant yellow Black Walnuts, the Arboretum is an utterly magical riot of colour – best seen between the third week in October and first week in November. No leaf peeping list would be complete without the star of the autumnal colours show, Westonbirt Arboretum. To make the most of this colourful season, we’ve put together a guide to Bristol’s best parks for autumn leaf peeping:įor more outdoorsy autumnal inspiration, don’t miss our Bristol’s Best Autumn Walks blog. W e’re looking for something that is typical and not unusual for that particular species, s o try and find three trees that are doing th e same thing of the same species and then that’s the right time to record.The leaves have started changing colour and by evening, there’s an unmistakeable whiff of autumn in the air. You’ll have one tree that’s almost bare and one that’s barely turned colour, so t he advice that we give is to try and find three trees that are all carrying out the same particular event, so they’re all tinting at the same time. People that record Nature’ s Calendar say that they find autumn tinting particularly hard to record because often even the same species of tree can appear to be doing different things. B ut the yellow certainly is there all year round so it’s quite an interesting story when you’re out for your ne xt crispy winter walk just to enjoy all those colou rs and understand why they are where they are. T hat is created in certain weather conditions where you get a concentration of sugars in the leaf, particularly the red colouratio n. Some of the red colour, that’s actually not there all year. S o, it’s not a question of the colour appearing, it’s that it’s been there all year-round. I n fact, many of them are present in the leaf all year round and what happens is that the green pigment called chlorophyll, that slowly gets broken down as the cold weather increases and the colours that have been present in the year like the yellows are then revealed. N ot everyone might be aware about why leaves actually do change colo u r, and the yellows, the oranges, the beautiful shades that we see. S o, if it’s very windy, if it’s very frosty, then the tree might drop its leaves without having achieved full colouration. We don’t always see full tint every year because in some years, in some weather conditions, the tree might actually shed its leaves beforehand. Full tinting can be very variable : c an be from the end of September right through to November, maybe even early December in some years. And that’s actually quite an unusual thing. Actually, that colour doesn't matter, it's the fact that there’s really no green left on the tree at all. Kate Lewthwaite: F ull tinting is when the tree has completely changed colo u r, so there's almost no green visible and it's gone to its autumn colours which might be yellow, might be red, might be bronze.
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