‘Unique’ autumn show predicted for UK trees – but decline may follow

National Trust says dazzling display this year may be reversed if trees continue to face extreme summers

After a year of extreme weather, a unique" show of golden browns and buttery yellows could light up the UK's trees in the next few weeks, a conservation charity has predicted, while warning that the impact of the climate emergency could threaten the show in autumns to come.

The National Trust said that some stressed trees had shed leaves early during a false autumn" because of the summer's exceptional heat and dryness but said that it, nonetheless, believed a particularly vivid October and November could be on the way.