Autumn gardening advice special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week we've a bumper crop of help and advice to get your garden into shape for autumn. RHS experts give timely tips on everything from picking seasonal bedding plants, smartening up your plot, growing lemons and how to prune a purple-leaf elderberry. Horticulturist and TV presenter Flo Headlam gives a garden designer's take on how to get the best from your garden in autumn and shares her favourite plants for late-season impact.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:30.1	Autumn is fast approaching and I love this season.
0:33.3	It's a time of great change in the garden.
0:37.3	As the weather cools our gardens change from green to shades of yellow and orange.
0:42.3	Our annuals die back and we get to reap the rewards of all the hard work on our vegetable patches.
0:48.3	It's like the Goldilocks season, not too hot and not too cold,
0:51.3	and we can really get on with some really lovely jobs like collecting
0:54.7	leaf mould and planting bulbs.
1:00.4	Today on gardening with the RHS, we want to celebrate everything autumn has to offer.
1:07.4	I'm Fiona Davison and in today's show we'll hear about the top tasks to do in the garden this month,
1:14.5	how to design an outdoor space that looks fantastic in autumn and we'll be looking at what's been troubling RHS members recently.
1:34.2	So let's begin with the nitty gritty and work on a gardening to-do list for this season with advisor Nikki Barker.
1:42.8	Right, my first top tip is actually almost nothing to do with plants, but get yourself a pen and paper.
1:45.2	Have a walk round and see what worked for you this year, what you want to think about for next year, what was too much work, what
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