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Planting in Autumn

1 comments Posted by David Andersen at Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Autumn is a time when it's important to understand the true nature of how plants work. Although we perceive that it is the time of the year when mother nature is slowing down, nevertheless this is a good time to plant.

Here are a few good reasons why: What to plant?


It’s good to bear in mind if you have any space for tree planting (or hedge planting for that matter) it's good to plant them during autumn for many reasons:

It’s an excellent time to plant shrubs and you may find that some bare-rooted shrubs are inexpensive, especially many wildlife varieties: hollies, yew, lonicera (the climbing one), as well as many buxus if you are planning a box hedge.


Quite a variety of things can be sown in your vegetable plot at this time: Beetroot, chard, kohlrabi, oriental greens, calabrese, turnips, spinach, spring cabbage, endive, carrots (if fast growing varieties). You could also put in strawberry plants.


Recommended bulb plantings include: grape hyacinths, hyacinths, daffodils, jonquils, ixia, freesia, ranunculus, sparaxis.

Image on the right: Acer palmatum atropurpureum just starting to turn to it's magnificent autumn shades.

Garden Landscaping Video of the Survey, Design & Build

0 comments Posted by David Andersen at Thursday, October 18, 2012
