VIDEO: Trees and climbers to plant for autumn

Peter Dowdall muses on the wonders of autumn’s hues and suggests some trees and climbers to plant for now.

THERE is no doubt the summer is over and it’s autumn time once more — the swallow are about to fly south for the winter and those of us who may have been hoping for a late ‘summer’ can no longer delude ourselves — autumn has arrived.

And with a deluge, too, last weekend —as is becoming all too common and as has been predicted by the scientists — we are seeing very heavy periods of rainfall and flooding, where a month’s average rainfall falls in one or two days.