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Sunday, October 23, 2022

How to turn up the colour on autumn’s amazing show | James Wong

Brilliant reds, yellows and oranges are the eyecatching hues of the season. Here’s how to make the most of them

Everyone has one of those seemingly indestructible friends. You know, the ones who run marathons in heatwaves, go sea swimming in the depths of winter, and whatever the weather somehow manage to have an enormous, earth-motherly smile on their face while doing it. So, when I was invited to the October wedding of two such friends, held in a gathering of tents in a Welsh forest, where the activities included lake swimming and outdoor log saunas, my poor, tropical physiology was braced for the worst.

However, from the moment I arrived, just as the leaves flushed their autumnal shades, I was overcome by their incredible uplifting power, made all the more intense by the amount of time spent around them – and so jaw-droppingly beautiful that I barely noticed the chill. We gardeners spend so much time fixated on improving the size and quality of flowers, fruit and veg, it really got me wondering what we could do to improve the drama of autumn leaves.

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