Gardening in Autumn: what to plant

We’re well into Autumn but just because you’ve swapped salads for soups, packed away your bikini and started eyeing off a new winter coat, doesn’t mean your garden has to go into hibernation! There are plenty of flowers, trees, fruits and vegetables that will flourish in the newfound nippiness in the air. It is also a great time of year to start planting bulbs that will flourish in time for spring! So get out your gardening gloves and grab a spade or sit back and let one of our gardeners do it for you.

Here are some of our picks for your garden!

Flowers and plants

• Tulip bulbs
• Daffodil bulbs
• Hyacinth bulbs
• Dahlias
• Perennials like ‘Yellow Trumpets’ or Salvias
• Autumn Roses like the sweet smelling David Austin English roses or French Dehlard roses
• Gazanias
• Ornamental grasses like Miscanthus zebrinus flourish in autumn

Fruits

• Kiwifruit
• Currants
• Raspberries
• Citrus trees: grapefruit, lemon or orange.
• Passionfruit

Vegetables

• Root vegetables like potatoes, turnips, garlic, onions, shallots and leeks
• Most kinds of lettuce but opt for butterhead, oakleaf and cos.
• Parsley
• English Spinach
• Broad beans
• Peas
• Cauliflower
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Endive

What are you planting in your garden this Autumn? Let us know below!