Trees looking autumnal

[KangarooKenny]

Has anyone noticed any trees looking on the turn, like they think it’s autumn ? There are several near me, I’m getting excited about conkers now !

I think they are just stressed from lack of water so losing their leaves.

Don’t be excited. It’s looking like horse chestnuts are going to really struggle with climate change, there’s a good chance grand children won’t get the joy of finding those shiny gems in autumn.

I've noticed the blackberries are starting to ripen in certain areas.

It’s heat and water stress. Not good.

Nature has a fascinating way of when under stress trying to reproduce. So frogs when caught by prey will just pop their sporn out even if it’s not water, on the off chance they’ll survive and I think that’s what the blackberries etc are doing.

Lack of water unfortunately, we’ve got trees in our garden that are losing leaves, it looks like September rather than July, heat won’t help but where we live it’s the lack of rain and drying wind.

We've got three beautiful, majestic horse chestnuts on the green on on our road. I've noticed over the past few years the leaves start turning brown by August, they are quite brown already, not a good sign.

There's a horse chestnut tree in the school grounds behind our house. It's been the last of the mature trees there to come into bloom and the first to start turning brown for a few years now.
I contacted the school and they got a tree surgeon to look at it when he was next on site. He said it's a harmless parasite that lives in the leaves. (I was worried in case it was conker canker which kills horse chestnut trees, but it wasn't ).

This was in June at the park. June ffs!

Horse chestnuts have two diseases in this country.

A moth canker and

www.google.com/search?q=horse+chestnut+diseases&oq=horse+chestnut+diseases&aqs=chrome..69i57.5022j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

This has been the case for many years now. We have had several in our garden and tree surgeons have told us about it.

This is not related to climate change.

That might be the case for some. But it doesn’t explain the other varieties.
near me. It is climate change.

Leaves have a lifespan of x number of days. Each variety of plant has its own span. If you had leaf burst early, they will desiccate early. I don’t know whether they will drop or hang on until the weather turns properly.

I'd noticed it too. Lots of trees going. Its been so dry for so long i assume its that.

Bkackberries are ripe here - is that earlier than normal?

Horse chestnuts always turn early, and a lot of them are diseased, which doesn't help matters. Most other trees have leaves damaged by scorch and lack of water from the heatwave, so they aren't really displaying any autumn colour yet, it just looks like it.

It’s crazy isn’t it, it’s the same here. There’s blackberries on the bushes behind our house (much to DD’s delight 😬)

@AntlerRose just seen your post!

Yes, I’ve seen ripe blackberries too. I always assumed that they only have a certain lifespan, so if they start early they finish early.
I always enjoy seeing the seasons start to change, so I’m enjoying seeing hints of autumn right now.

It's the dryness of spring and summer this year, stresses the trees so they drop their leave to preserve the tree.

When I lived in Canada, we sometimes had very and dry and droughty summers. In those years, the leaves would change colour and drop off much earlier than in other years due to water/heat stress. I'd imagine similar is happening in the UK this summer.

I've seen the image of UK in July last year, and July this year side by side. The difference was significant. Not good, nothing to be excited about.