Autumn comes early: Leaves are already changing colour thanks to hot dry Spring

Autumn colours are beginning to appear on trees several weeks early as a result of the hot dry spring, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has said.



While the onset of autumn is controlled by temperature and day length, the unusually early colour being seen on trees such as maples, hazels liquidamber and laburnum is

response to the dry soils left over from the spring, the RHS said.



The society has seen yellowing, and some red and brown tints, on leaves at its gardens at Wisley, Surrey, particularly on leaves in the middle of trees which they can afford to lose without stopping much photosynthesis.





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