Dry Weekend Start Gives Big Tree Country One Last Golden Hurrah Before the Frost
Leaf-peepers urged to get out today. Dunkeld, the Hermitage and Pitlochry still glowing, though a frost on Sunday night will start to bring the curtain down.
Perthshire's autumn colours, hanging on for one more weekend. Photo: Andrew Tryon, “Autumn Trees near Balloch, Crieff, Perthshire - geograph.org.uk - 7918431”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Perthshire’s autumn colours are putting on a final show, with today’s sunshine lighting up the beeches, larches and birches from Dunkeld to Loch Tummel, and visitors are being urged to get out before the first frost on Sunday night.
“It’s been a long autumn this year,” said one Pitlochry café owner. “The trees have been going for weeks. They’re like a band doing encore after encore. Monday morning, I think the frost will turn the lights on.”
Visitors reported the Hermitage at its best, and said the larches on the hills above Aberfeldy had gone “a sort of Irn-Bru colour”. Tourism bodies say this is an official term.
Photographers are advised to visit early, as the light is best in the morning and the car parks are best before 10am.
Anyone visiting from Texas is reminded that in Perthshire, leaves fall off trees. It is perfectly normal and there is no need to call anyone.
The real story: Perth forecast (Met Office)
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