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Although autumn heralds a slow down in readiness for winter, it follows a period of intense activity and so there are consequences for the garden and the gardener. Autumn is the time for replenishment and preparation and although there is much to do, nothing can be more important than enjoying the visual feast that Mother Nature provides.
September
- Buy your spring flowering bulbs. Remember not to plant tulips until November.
- Keep continuing to deadhead perennials.
- Continue to deadhead and feed hanging baskets.
- Bring inside tender perennials such as fuchsias.
- When bringing non-hardy plant indoors for the winter, check for any pests and diseases and treat as appropriate.
- Take cuttings of tender perennials.
- Continue to collect seed as it ripens.
- Give evergreen hedges a final cut.
- Scarify your lawn before you apply a fertilizer.
- Repair patchy lawns with seed.
October
- Take note of your gardening failures and successes.
- Continue to plant spring flowering bulbs. Remember not to plant tulips until November.
- Sow seeds of annuals such as Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’ or Campanula patula for a late spring show.
- Bring tender perennials under cover.
- When bringing non-hardy plants indoors for the winter, check for any pests and diseases and treat as appropriate.
- Take cuttings of tender perennials.
- Continue to collect seed as it ripens.
- Give hedges their final cut.
- Scarify your lawn before you apply a fertilizer.
- This is your last chance to sow lawn seed.
November
- Last chance to plant tulips.
- Plant up winter container displays.
- Start winter pruning apples and pears.
- Manure and dig plots.
- Plant bare-rooted deciduous trees, shrubs and roses.
- Plant bush, cane and tree fruit such as redcurrants.
- Prune bush roses to reduce wind rock.
- Regularly rake the leaves off lawns.
- In mild weather turf can still be laid.
- Dig up dahlia bulbs once the plants start to die off after the first hard frost.
