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Hello and welcome to an autumnal edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast.

I'm Guy Bartar, Gardner, Avid Alottmanteer and the Society's Chief Horticulturist.

Autumn is an intriguing time for gardeners. it's a time of transition as the leaves change the fruit and veg of the current year are harvested preparations are made in earnest for the year ahead spring bulbs are planted and measures are deployed to hopefully prevent or at least minimize damage from from pests and diseases. Personally, my key

autumn priorities are summer pruning. It should really be done in August, but if you haven't

done it, there's still time in September. Apples and pears need pruning in the summer if they're

a dwarf kind like espaliers or cordons, and it's a simple matter of cutting back to just a couple of leaves above a basal

cluster by basal cluster i mean at the base of every shoot there's a little cluster of leaves

and that's where the shoot initiates each year and you cut back to just above that and this by some

magical thing induces fruit buds to form it also takes takes some of the vigour out of the trees and

stops them turning into great uncontrollable bushes. Here at Wisley Garden in Surrey, the autumn

changes also include the unveiling of a new garden area which promises to be particularly

exciting for younger visitors. The new Back to Nature Garden was officially opened this week.

These pollution ships, however, stretched far beyond the crucial one.

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