Tasks for November

Plant tulips in great drifts through the garden for your best display ever next spring. These spectacular bulbs are planted a little later to avoid tulip fire, a disfiguring fungal disease. But now it's quite safe - so stock up from the great range now on sale from our garden centre! Tulips look best planted by the dozen in blocks [...]

What to do in the garden in November: Early winter is a time for planning, and for making sure your garden is tucked up snugly for its winter rest. Here are your jobs to get on with this month: General tasks: Clean nest boxes removing old nesting material which can harbour parasites. Give bird baths and feeders a good scrub [...]

November's plants of the month are trees, in all their bewildering variety. There's one to suit every gardener among the comprehensive range at our garden centre - so to help you choose, here's a selection for every situation, from containers to rolling acres. Container gardens: Olive (Olea europaea) for gnarled shapes and slender, elegant grey-green leaves Japanese maples like 'Dissectum [...]

Give your grasses some TLC as they go over into winter and you'll save yourself a job in the spring, as well as keeping your winter garden neat and tidy. Not all grasses need attention in winter: some, in fact, come into their own at this time of year. Leave the tall, stately flowerheads of Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' [...]

Plant new hedges from this month, as the plants are dormant and will hardly know they've been moved. When they wake up in spring they'll race away to grow into a sturdy, elegant backdrop providing invaluable shelter for your garden. In our garden centre you'll find a wide range of hedging plants available in all sizes. Smaller plants are an [...]

Plant tulips this month by the bucketful to bring one of the year's most breathtaking spectacles to your back yard. Tulip bulbs are planted later, to avoid the disfiguring disease tulip fire – but from this month onwards it's all systems go. You'll find a superb range of varieties on sale in our garden centre, in all colours from yellow-edged [...]