Get planning for the autumn

Now is a great time to sit back, relax and plan your autumn planting.

Start thinking about that new border. Look for plants with a long flowering period and those that have two or more seasons of interest with flowers, fruit, colourful stems and interesting foliage.

Choose plants with different foliage colours and shapes and remember that while evergreens help bring structure and winter interest they may need livening up with deciduous plants.

Use winter and spring bedding plants to increase interest and plant bulbs for extra splashes of colour.

Keep your garden looking bright and colourful by adding some new containers, planted up already for autumn colour.

Create them yourself with favourites like pansies, evergreen shrubs such as euonymus and under plant with spring-flowering bulbs. Or make it really easy by taking home our ready-planted containers, which will be available in September onwards.