PICARDY PLACE:—AUTUMN COLOURS
Our photo has prompted some reaction to 'desiccated foliage' in the background. Readers have criticised Council officials for inadequate irrigation of the Picardy Place planting.
Spurtle is more sanguine. The Editor, at least, doesn't mind the seasonal die-back of plants at this time of year, and accepts that its early onset may have been unavoidable after an exceptionally dry, hot spring and summer.
In any case, editing of the photo has certainly reduced the full range of interesting yellows, browns, fawns and ochres which have appeared here over recent weeks.