Your garden in November

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What's everyone doing this November?

I still have tulip bulbs to plant
My Michaelmas daisies have gone over, so I need to cut those back.
I'm beginning to think about 'putting the garden to bed for the Winter.

I really need to wash out and clean all my bird feeders. It's a job I HATE but I love seeing the birds.

Jobs to do

Prune the roses

Rake the leaves off the lawn

I’m just digging this November. I’ve already put all tender plants in the green house. So I’ll be digging out the crocosmias as they just didn’t flower much this year, so they need splitting up. Also I’m going to plant succulents and cyclamen under the budlia when I’ve got the weeds out.

I just planted some daffs and tulips in pots
Raked up some leaves
Pruned some geraniums in pots right down and put them is a sheltered position - in hope they might survive the cold!
Mowed the lawn!

The garden is so claggy I'm scared to step on it. I've got lots of tulips to plant but I think they'll just rot if I put them in now.

I've got some pots done but will do more. I also need to do the winter tidy but won't have a chance in daylight now for another couple of weeks. I want to leave as much for the birds and insects as possible, but as its the front garden I like it to look a bit tidy!

Broad beans to be sown.

I spent a couple of hours today clearing out summer pots that have gone over, cleaning those pots ready for spring bulbs, and planting up some winter bedding with bulbs underneath. Also mulched my salvias and some recently planted plants that I think might need a bit of protection from the cold nights we have coming.

I also started tidying up my plastic pots - they're a massive mess and need organising by size and putting away neatly. It's a very boring job.

Tomorrow I need to cut back a huge laurel that's blocking a lot of light and when I have time I need to move a rose. Big jobs!

I also want to do some stealth daffodil planting in the alley near our house 😁 There's a spot that needs cheering up. Masses of tulips to plant, but I don't do them until December as our ground is so damp, they'll rot.

I’ve got masses of bulbs and onions to plant. I have bare root roses coming mid November and some perennials to go with them , so I need to create a large bed in what is currently lawn. I also have a very leggy pyracantha, and some climbing roses that I clearly have been pruning wrong, so I need to figure that out. 2 weeks ago, the whole garden was a total mess but there was a show your greenhouse thread on here that made me so ashamed, that I cleaned it out and then tidied the veg patch and the awful bed where the dog wees.

I’m waiting for the last of the tomatoes to ripen so I can clear the greenhouse for the scented geraniums and dahlias.

And I’m waiting for leaves to drop so. I can start on winter pruning.

I’m hoping for a dry period so I can get in a last mow before the daffodils start putting their tips up.

Then I need to check what seeds I still have and order new ones for next year

I am off to the garden centre today to buy winter pansies and cyclamen. Last year the flowered from November to March.

I have two roses, one planted two years ago and the other last year. They are not very big, do I prune them right back?
Also, I have a massive agapanthus which I need to reduce in size anyone got too tips of how to do that?

My haul from the garden centre

Very pretty, @florentina1. I meant to go this morning but was too exhausted after a disastrous dog walk.

I've planted two dwarf pear trees (one in a pot one in the ground). I have three bags of only half-ready leaf mould from last year. Can I mulch the soil around the new trees with it?

Need to plant out the rest of my honesty, wallflower and sweet William seedlings, take rose cuttings and put in broad beans, dig out excess pulmonarias and do something about the raspberry canes I completely failed to prune.

Raking up leaves, raking up leaves, raking up leaves……..did manage to plant some tulips today too.

I'm happily planning a 'new to me' garden so this month I'm doing a lot prep for next spring. The garden was well kept but quite basic so plenty of opportunity for improvement and we're reusing and relocating as much as we can.

In the last couple of weeks I've -

Finished (along with dp) building a large raised bed reusing some old sleepers left behind by the previous owners, and have reallocated some foxgloves and divided hostas into it, then added some anemones I bought.

Various tulips and little white alliums have gone into planters, and some tall alliums into the borders.

Planted 5 roses - 2 x skylark into large pots, a lady gardener and royal jubilee into a new border in the front garden , and a 'Gerturde Jekyll' climber has had to go in a pot for now as we might need to dig up the spot I was planning to put it in to remove the fence.

Compost and leaf mulch are full to the brim. Everything in pots has been trimmed and tidied. Weeds dug out of cracks in the paving.

Still to do - last strim of the lawn, clean bird feeders again (ugh), tidy pots. Pick rosehips so I can try to make my own rosehip oil.

My greenhouse is arriving next week - doing a little dance every time I think about it as I'm so excited! When I ordered it they said it would probably be delivered in January, so it's doubly exciting to have it so much earlier!

Wow @golldenshoes, that sounds organised and gorgeous. My 5 bare root roses cane today, the LarkAscending, Kew Gardens, Vanessa Bell, Emily Bronte ,and another I’ve forgotten the name of. The bed is marked out with some turf taken off, but it looks too small, it’s about 7 metres by 2, in a sperm shape?, runs along a curved path, so they have to be towards the back, I may put 3 in and use the other 2 elsewhere. I have geraniums and lavender to underplant, lots of white and purple bulbs and salvias foxgloves agastache and cow parsley for company.
Will my bare root roses be ok in a bucket of water until Sunday? I am busy tomorrow.

@thisplaceisapigsty are they putting up the greenhouse?
If possible, try to make sure you can walk all the way round. I have weeds I can’t get at round the back, and my neighbours badly pruned beech hedge overshadowing it . If I was placing it now, it would be bang in the middle of my veg plot, not in a corner. But they are lovely.

@Mushypeasandchipstogo

Raking up leaves, raking up leaves, raking up leaves……..did manage to plant some tulips today too.
^^^
Oh the leaves - me too!

@Zebracat many thanks for that as I had been thinking of putting it with one side against a fence and that would eventually mean trapped weeds. There is room for it to be away from the fence. I shall do a little replanning I think!

Nothing just yet.....did a huge amount of gardening and planting in September/October after we finished a summer of groundworks and fencing, so most of the beds are looking fresh and neat, with a fair amount of "young" shrubs which don't need much attention yet.

I have got one bed which I knew I wouldn't get around to this year, so I poked a few nasturtium seeds into the soil in the spring, and they went RAMPANT - scrambling up nearby shrubs and sending great long runners acorss the patio. Very decorative, and nice for one season, but now they're dying back and I need to clear them out. Yes, I realise they will have self-seeded everywhere....

Apart from that, I'm waiting for the first frost to kill off the geraniums and can then clear my pots and cut back all the dead perennial stuff. I won't be raking leaves, as I bought DH a leaf blower, haha!

Nothing.....Leaving it all for the birds and insects.

Am having to sit on my hands and ignore the shears!!