Get planting this September

We’re backing the Horticultural Trades Association’s (HTA) annual ‘Plan it, Plant it this Autumn’ campaign again this year.

During the past decade all the focus for gardeners has been on spring planting, but autumn is actually a better time to plant many shrubs, trees and fruit bushes and canes as the soil is still warm and moist. Therefore plants can establish ready for next year, before the winter sets in.

So you don’t need to wait until next spring to do some planting. This season we have a fabulous array of late flowering hardy plants, colourful berries, wonderful autumn tints and bright evergreen shrubs in stock.

We’ve also got many varieties of fruit trees in-store at the moment as now is the ideal time to plant them. There is nothing quite like an apple picked fresh from the tree!

To keep your garden full of colour throughout autumn, choose from ericas, hydrangeas, potentillas, asters, echinacea, phlox, rudbeckias, hardy chrysanthemums, cyclamen and winter-flowering pansies.

To get the best displays from your winter and spring hanging baskets and containers, plant them now. Include ivy, dwarf conifers and dwarf shrubs, winter-flowering pansies, hardy primulas and polyanthus.

Add bulbs to extend the display. Check out our extensive range of plants, containers, baskets, basket liners, brackets and compost, and remember to add a controlled-release fertiliser.