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Time to start your wish-list! Gardening tips for late October

The clocks go back tonight – no more pretending that the winter is an age away! But while we are bidding a sad farewell to yet another glorious summer of gardening there are still tasks to be accomplished such as looking after pots of herbs, cutting back spreaders that may harbour snails and slugs and […]

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Autumn Great Plants this Month

Erigeron karvinskianus AGM – Mexican fleabane

Everyone loves a daisy, but for me, this is the sweetest of them all. In very wet weather a few of the taller daisies in our garden (leucanthemum, rudbeckia, asters etc) can look a little bedraggled, whereas the Mexican fleabane always looks cheerful! Apologies to those who know it well, (however you will understand why […]