What are you most excited about planting in Sept/Oct?

[loveyouradvice]

Just that really - looking forward to hearing!

My first year - so lots of bulbs and poppy and cornflower seeds

[GreenHatHacker]

Have just redesigned & am in the middle of replanting my garden - so excited about everything! Have a tree & a clematis to plant tomorrow, some ferns on order from Fibrex next week and two bulb orders from Avon Bulbs & Sarah Raven in the pipeline! So looking forward to spring!

[Fluffycloudland77]

A holly tree, good for the birds & evergreen. I want winter trailing pansies for my hanging basket too.

[Disfordarkchocolate]

I'm sowing a small wildflower meadow. If I can clear all the gravel that's in the way! Some Christmas box is on order and I'm going to look for some bulbs. Still thinking about a gap I have but it's too shady for everything I fancy.

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

Nearly done:

Wildflower meadow

Spring bulbs; Crocus', daffodils, tulips, bluebells, snowdrops

Allium bulbs

Roses

Cyclamen

Chrysanthemums

Hydrangea

More anemones

I need some evergreen or winter colour/interest plants. Still undecided.

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

I'm googling in bed and just discovered an autumn flowering camellia (rainbow)

I never knew that such a thing existed

[MonsteraCheeseplant]

So.... I had a mad moment and bought 100 spring bulbs! Christ. So that includes tulips, snowdrops, crocus and a couple of yellow and orange Iris. That's going to be a lot of planting.

[Harrysmummy246]

I just sowed annuals on the steep bank (scatter at 3g/sqm)- I hope they'll not just get eaten by pigeons and that they actually fill the space- didn't seem like much to be honest!

I am desperately trying to make time to get all the bulbs I've bought in this month rather than too late like last year (100 wouldn't go far here ) but sadly I've got hedge cutting to finish etc first :*(

[Disfordarkchocolate]

I wish my little wildflower meadow was done @AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet, still levelling the ground and shifting a lot of gravel.

[cornstarch]

I've bought loads of bulbs with white flowers. Aliums, snowdrops, narcissi and tulips.

[Callmecordelia]

I'm going to plant bulbs in my pots. I have successional daffodils planned and I'm over planting with violets. I will also have small pots of crocuses.

Once my thunbergia dies off, I'm going to plant a clematis in its' place on the fence. Probably Prince Charles. The Montana my neighbours have put in is going over the top and back of the fence, so I don't have to find space for anything on that side.

I need a replacement for my low growing campanula - it looks great for two weeks and then dies off looking straggly at the front of the bed. I chopped it back but it didn't really do a second flush, this is its second underwhelming year, I think it's in the wrong place. The replacement needs to be something blue or blue-purple. It's a bit shady and whatever I put in there ideally would trail over a wall. Vinca minor?

[BernardsarenotalwaysSaints]

I’ve just ordered £60 of bulbs. I could have easily spent double that but thought it might have been slightly ott. I lost bed to extend the drive to fit 3 cars & also lost a bit of lawn widen a bed so that needs some bulbs adding in & the remaining bed needs restocking.

We’re currently in the planning phase of putting some beds in in our back garden too. We just had a patio & lawn laid when we moved in as funds were tight but we both find it dull & have no love for it any more. First up will be a man with a digger though as it desperately needs levelling (we had a water main burst in the garden 5 years ago & the water company didn’t make good the damage very well).

[Fluffycloudland77]

The ants invaded my new heather planter. I’ll have to buy poison now.

[Disfordarkchocolate]

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet

Where did you get your wildflower meadow seed? I keep changing my mind and I've never bought and seeds online (new gardener).

[WellTidy]

I’ve planted lots of spring bulbs, allium, anemones, ranunculus and a Viburnum Eve Price.

I would like to direct sow some seeds. I’ve bought poppy seeds, but what else can I direct sow now please? Nothing yellow, orange or red, please. White, pink, purple, blue all welcome.

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

@Disfordarkchocolate I bought the boxes in a garden centre

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

I'm most excited about these 🙏

[LifeOfBox]

Hellebores, I buy a lot from a third generation local nursery, everything grown there, their hellebores will be ready in two weeks and they have got some unusual varieties.

[Disfordarkchocolate]

Can you recommend any that are truly happy in shade @LifeOfBox. I love hellebores.

[LifeOfBox]

This one has tripled in size in the last year chocolate. I had to move it to the really shady side of my garden as it wasn't happy at all.

[Disfordarkchocolate]

Thanks, @LifeOfBox, I'm fairly new to this gardening. I ordered some Christmas box from that company I'm very much looking forward to.

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

I planted a hellebore at the weekend @LifeOfBox
I've since read that they're toxic to cats and dogs. Do you know how true this is, and when it says that a plant is toxic to pets, does that mean that they would have to be in contact with the plant? Sorry, I'm completely clueless!

I have a family of homeless cats in our overgrown field behind our house, a dog who visits me daily I share custody of him with my neighbour and one hedgehog, who lives in the hedge near where I planted the hellebore

[LifeOfBox]

Yes, they are toxic Always, so are many other plants. They would have to ingest them or chew them.

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

Thanks @LifeOfBox
I think it's highly unlikely that they would do that!

[Fluffycloudland77]

The only thing I’d avoid for cats is lilies, I just wouldn’t risk it.