23/10/2026
The trees changing colours gently signal the end of warm summer days and the onset of the colder, darker months are to come...
Transitions can be hard for all of us, particularly when good things are coming to an end. And yet, change is often needed, and, as autumn shows us, change can be so, so beautiful!
Before the tree sheds its leaves, it will take in any nutrients (that's why they change colour). The leaves then fall to the ground and disappear into the earth, where (with a little help from the worms and the microbes and the fungi!) they break down further, ready to help the tree live on and grow.
Trees are an absolute inspiration in their ability to make the most out of every part of themselves... even the old crinkly discarded bits can be broken down and recycled!!
This is one of the things we talk about in Growing Me... using the mind blowing ingenuity of trees to inspire creative thought about the things in our own lives that we want to grow, and the things we want to break down and reconfigure into something more useful...
