THINGS TO DO IN NOVEMBER?

  • Tidy the garden for winter
  • Continue with winter digging
  • Clean out used pots
  • Keep off the lawn in frosty weather
  • Plant bare-rooted trees and shrubs and new roses
  • Plant fruit trees and bushes
  • Protect tender and newly planted shrubs from frost and wind
  • Plant tulip bulbs
  • Continue to lift and divide rhubarb crowns
  • Winter-prune fruit trees and bushes

 

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANGE TO….

  • Lift and store dahlias
  • Start of amaryllis bulbs to flower at Christmas
  • Plant out spring bedding
  • Plant garlic

 

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  • Order seed catalogues
  • Begin any winter-pruning of deciduous trees and shrubs, including renovation of hedges

 

 

THINGS TO DO IN OCTOBER?
  • Finish planting evergreen shrubs
  • Plant new climbers
  • Plant new perennials
  • Plant tulip and lily bulbs
  • Divide overgrown perennials
  • Lift and store dahlias, gladioli and summer flowering bulbs
  • Cut down the dying tops of perennials vegetables
  • Lift and divide rhubarb

 

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANGE TO….

  • Finish planting spring bedding
  • Finish planting spring flowering bulbs

 

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  • Prepare for planting bare-rooted stock next month
  • Make early sowing of broad beans for next year
  • Sow sweet peas for next year under cover

 

THINGS TO DO IN SEPTEMBER?
  • Start planting new trees, shrubs and climbers
  • Stop feeding trees and shrubs in containers
  • Clear out summer bedding plants
  • Start planting new perennials
  • Start dividing overgrown perennials
  • Support tall, later-flowering perennials
  • Plant spring-flowering bulbs
  • Plant out spring-flowering biennials
  • Plant up containers with spring bedding

IT’S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO…..

  • Force hyacinths for Christmas
  • Plant new strawberry plants

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  • Sow hardy annuals to flower next yea

 

 

 

 
   
 
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