The hot spring and cool summer conditions appear to have brought early and bumper autumn crops.
There is a plentiful supply of fruits, seeds and berries and many trees are already showing their autumn colours, the National Trust said.
The conditions follow a record-breaking dry spring, a drought in parts of east and southern England, and a rainy and cloudy summer.
As a consequence, orchards are said to be bursting with apples and pears.
They flowered and pollinated well and then they got some rain for swelling, NT conservation adviser Matthew Oates said.
If the drought had gone on they wouldn't have swelled, and the trees would have dropped their fruit.
But a good blackberry crop is said to be hanging in the balance and dependent on a warm sunny September as the brambles flowered in July during the poor weather.
Meanwhile, the leaves on trees such as hawthorns, field maples and beeches have already turned gold.
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There is a plentiful supply of fruits, seeds and berries and many trees are already showing their autumn colours, the National Trust said.
The conditions follow a record-breaking dry spring, a drought in parts of east and southern England, and a rainy and cloudy summer.
As a consequence, orchards are said to be bursting with apples and pears.
They flowered and pollinated well and then they got some rain for swelling, NT conservation adviser Matthew Oates said.
If the drought had gone on they wouldn't have swelled, and the trees would have dropped their fruit.
But a good blackberry crop is said to be hanging in the balance and dependent on a warm sunny September as the brambles flowered in July during the poor weather.
Meanwhile, the leaves on trees such as hawthorns, field maples and beeches have already turned gold.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14783634
