Autum Planting.

How about Winter Pansies, Violas and Polyanthus - also the little Cyclamen are not expensive and give a lovely patch of colour. You could add dwarf evergreen grasses in between like Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' or Stipa tenuissima.

My friend just sugested winter pansies also heather? my problem is i dont know what goes with what? Thanks for that!

Heathers are difficult because they need an acid soil. Do you know if yours is? If you don't know - can you grow Rhododendrons/Azaleas/Pieris or are they growing in neighbours' gardens? If so, Heathers will be happy. Otherwise, they have to go in a pot with ericaceous compost.

My neighbour has Rhododendrons & Azaleas, It never even crossed my mind about soil content, im going to have to start doing some serious homework!

I so love helabores and woodland plants .

And like Spritzhendry there are many nice grasses that would look well with winter pansies.

Winter flowering heathers are fine in all soils.

Pansies are lovely and mix well colour wise with lots i think their a firm fav of mine and last really well.

Ive also been looking at climbing roses, ive got a lovley stone wall and i fancied climbing something up it. Never done anything like that before how do you train them?

Think about some larger plants for your garden as well. Viburnum tinus is an evergreen shrub, about five to six feet tall and across that flowers from October to April and is readily available at Garden Centres. How about that for a long flowering season?

Have to add to this Sambuca and the plum leaves a delight in the garden .

Heucheras there a lot of new varietys this year and a real treasure in the garden or better still containers.

Thats great thanks! be nice to get a bit of height going on
my garden is quite flat at the mo because im not sure what goes with what.

You train your climbing rose on a wall by fastening horizontal wires along it. Then after planting, fasten the stems along the wires. There's more to it after pruning but that's the first step. When you plant it, remember that roses are greedy feeders and give it some bonemeal mixed in the compost in the planting hole. Then mulch it and feed it again in the spring. There are so many to choose from and now is a very good time to plant one, Kelf!

I've been to the garden centre today Kelf, and treated myself to a couple of the yellow grasses Spritz mentions. Also two packs of garden chrysanthemums complete with buds that I shall plant at the weekend. They'll reach a height of 16ins. and should be fine till Xmas. The colours I chose were a deep golden yellow and vivid red. I shall plant a few right at the end of my garden to add some interest and colour when the golden hop there dies down for the Winter. I particularly love the bright shades for Autumn and early Winter as with the fading light, these colours seem to glow brighter.

Morning!
i was hoping to get in the garden this weekend but it
looks like we are having rain & gale force winds!
I will be definatley be taking a trip to the garden centre though, and by the looks of it taking a very big list with me. Thanks everyone for all your help!