As the last of the leaves fall from mountain ash trees, the splendour of their bright red berries is revealed. For several weeks, the red and yellow leaves have obscured the red of the berries. The ...

It would be a gross exaggeration to say I suffer autumn anxiety yet every year, as summer ends, my mood becomes a little wistful. It’s the reason I tend to go on holiday somewhere warmer than Ireland ...

On the well-known Kerry mountain of Brandon there may be found occasional rowan trees, their scarlet berries flashing in the thinning autumn sunlight. The mountain ash, as it is also called, is ...

I've seen enough mountain ash berries this month to know that we are going to have quite a few drunken bohemian waxwings later this winter. Those beautiful, red berries, bountiful this year, happen to ...

Rowan trees are sporting their red berries at the moment, waiting for winged Scandinavian plunderers to nourish themselves on their autumn journeys south. What admirable trees they are, writes Lesley ...