What to do in the garden in autumn, with Frances Tophill
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
4.4 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kevin Smith from BBC Gardner's World magazine. |
| 0:03.0 | There's a brand new event this September, In Conversation at Q Gardens. |
| 0:07.0 | Join me, Adam Frost and Francis Toppill for expert tips and great chat. |
| 0:13.0 | Find out more at inconversationlive.co.uk. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the award-winning BBC Gardner World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine. |
| 0:27.8 | Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello everyone. Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm the content director here at BBC Gardner's World |
| 0:41.3 | magazine. It's a real pleasure to see you. I hope you've had a good day. So, without further ado, |
| 0:45.9 | should we get Francis to actually come on the stage rather than lurking that. There we are. Big cheer. |
| 0:51.1 | Come on, Francis. How are you come? |
| 0:53.1 | Hello. That was a woot. a proper woof. We like that. |
| 0:59.4 | Take a seat. Take a seat. We're at the autumn fair and we're going to be talking about all the jobs that we should be doing this autumn. |
| 1:08.0 | In the autumn. Yes. Very busy time. And I don't know about everybody here, but I kind of feel |
| 1:14.0 | like the summer, the last few weeks that we've had, as long as you're sort of on top of the watering, |
| 1:18.7 | you can kind of let the garden do its thing. Yeah. But we feel on the cusp of a load of activity. Would you |
| 1:26.0 | agree? Yeah, I would agree. There's definitely a lot of tidying that |
| 1:31.0 | feels like it wants to happen now. But also I'm not sure I'm ready for autumn yet. I've really |
| 1:35.9 | enjoyed this summer. So I'm sort of hoping it goes back. But it's not. We actually have quite an |
| 1:40.8 | early autumn because we've had such a lot of heats like all the black breeze, |
| 1:44.9 | depending where you are in the country, they're perfect in Scotland now, but they're kind of over |
| 1:48.8 | where I am in Devon. So we kind of are, we're there really. So it's time to start thinking |
| 1:55.6 | about the jobs for autumn, really. And you don't have to do everything in autumn. I think |
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