Autumn Garden Tips

Much like many of us, plants like companions. Marigolds, lavender, geraniums, sunflowers, salvia, borage, verbena, sunflowers, cornflowers, zinnias, bee balm, echinacea, coreopsis and hollyhocks make great companion plants. Brightly coloured flowers also attract birds, bees and butterflies. They’re wonderful pollinators and companions. Plant to encourage birds, bees and butterflies into your garden.

The Autumn Garden Makeover — in Preparation for Winter It’s a wonderful time to get our gardens organised for winter, as before we know...

After such a long and dry, warm spell our gardens are welcoming with open arms early autumn rains. The rain is refreshing our gardens, and they in turn are beckoning us into them. It’s time to get organised ahead of winter, and there’s plenty of variety on the gardening front. The still warm soil encourages root growth in new plantings, ahead of winter. In some ways this is the best season for sowing seeds, planting new trees, shrubs and seedlings.