Autumn glorious
Yorkshire Life|October 2020
Abundant orchards, crips leaves and a firework of autumn colour – our guide to the season’s best
Bethan Hyatt
Autumn glorious

‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.’ So said L M Montgomery’s wide-eyed optimist Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. She was, of course, talking about the beauty of the month on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, but her words could equally be applied to the other side of the pond, and especially Yorkshire, where our three national parks and thousands of acres of woodland provide autumnal adventures galore.

AUTUMN LEAVES AND ABUNDANT ORCHARDS

Does anything conjure up the image of autumn more than falling leaves in vibrant shades of red, orange and yellow? Yorkshire has wonderful woodlands aplenty to explore, from the oak and beech trees at Hardcastle Crags (nationaltrust. org. uk) to Thorp Perrow (thorpperrow. com) and the Yorkshire Arboretum (yorkshirearboretum. org) at Castle Howard.

Yorkshire Arboretum’s director John Grimshaw says: ‘Autumn here is like a slow-motion firework display: first one group of trees will colour up – perhaps a group of birch turning clear yellow – then another comes on and does its thing in a brilliant burst, for example hickories turning gold for just a few days. And there’s the long slow burn of the ‘October Glory’ red maples, heating up from September onwards and peaking perhaps in early November when the oaks and beeches are also at their best. As well as the leaves there are berries to enjoy: many colours of sorbus from Europe and Asia, red viburnum berries, and the startling pink and orange confection that are the fruits of our native spindle bush. Maple keys twirl down elegantly, and long chains of wingnuts hang green among the leaves.’

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