Plant Care & Maintenance

There’s much to like about the winter garden. Plants that bravely flower, often with a scent. Snowdrops are the first signs that spring’s around the corner. It’s a perfect time to plant Daphne, Cyclamen, Viburnum, Camellia, Bergenia, Hostas and Wintersweet, Primula and Polyanthus.

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.