We just love September when the leaves that adorn all our lovely trees in the UK start to turn that stunning amber.  Can you actually imagine a life without these wonders of nature? No, we couldn’t either, but unless we look after our friendly green (and gold) giants, we could lose them!

Remove the last fading blooms from roses and cut back taller stems by half to prevent winter ‘wind rock’ from loosening the plants roots.

In the herbaceous border you can take and root cuttings from perennials such as fuchsias, pelargoniums and Salvias.

September beckons and with it Autumn approaches and the day length begins to shorten. In the garden however it’s one of the busiest times of the year!

It’s September already as our gardening year gallops on! Where does the time go? Our day length begins to shorten and as I write this, signs of autumn are increasingly to be seen around the garden.

What does the word organic really mean to you? If you sometimes tend to ignore this term as simply a marketing ploy to sell expensive vegetables to you at posh markets and garden centres, it could be time to think again. 

The gardening year gallops on at speed and what a strange summer it’s been! In spring it was cold with light levels low, so much so that it was difficult to get things growing. Then suddenly it turned hot with real downpours of rain and it was a job to keep up with everything!

Let’s take a look at what we need to be doing in September!

Petrol is changing to E10 this September in the UK. But what does that mean for your ATCO lawnmower?