Autumn may not be the most exciting time for the garden, after the bounty of late summer – but it’s an optimistic season of looking forward to new growth to come. Below, we partner with King’s Plant Barn to share some tips for autumn gardening.
Gardening in April
Get rid of any summer flowering annuals that have done their dash and plant your winter flowers – think primulas, calendula, hollyhock, snapdragon, violas, pansies, mini cyclamen, Iceland poppies, and nemesias. Harvest any pumpkins, potatoes, onions and marrows coming through and store them somewhere cool and dry for the coming winter. Plant sweetpeas somewhere sunny so they’re looking sweet come spring. It’s also the right time to sow seeds for English daisies, cornflowers, cineraria, lobelia and lupins. And you can plant daffodils…
