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Article: Last of the summer vines; Garden life.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- September 4, 1999
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SUMMER'S started to ease itself slowly into autumn. There's a feeling of change in the air. Daytime temperatures are much the same as a month ago, but now the mornings are heavy with dew.
There's a crispness in the air that seems to go with spiders' webs and bonfire smoke.
There are still plenty of summery flowers out in the garden, but they've been joined by those that bridge the seasons. Tough plants that will keep going until frost finally flattens them.
Hardy fuchsias always seem to me to be the classic autumn shrub - delicate looking but able ...