Top 4 Jobs Before Your Garden Slumbers

Here Are Your Top Four Jobs Before Your Garden Slumbers

- Melissa King

The shadows are getting longer as the sun sits lower in the sky, and the growing is slowing as your garden gets ready for its annual nap. But a few things need doing first to make sure its slumber is undisturbed, and it wakes up bright as a button come spring.

1 WINTER COLOUR

Now is the time to plant mid-winter flowering bulbs in pots, such as crocus, Iris reticulata and anemone poppies. Or you can bring instant cheer with pretty pansies. Flowering now in beds or pots are Argyranthemum Federation Daisies – try ‘Pom Pom’, ‘Super Chameleon’ and ‘Sunday Best’.

2 EDGING