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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

13 - 19 October 2008

Plant out pansies

Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • Plant out spring bedding, including pansies, wallflowers and forget-me-nots
  • Pot up tender perennials from summer displays to bring under cover for winter protection
  • Prune rambling and climbing roses
  • Rake autumn leaves from lawns and pick out from around border plants
  • Cut down annuals, add the material to the compost heap and fork over the beds
  • Lay new lawns from turf
  • Start to plant tulips in pots and borders
  • Pile bark mulch over the crowns of hardy fuchsias to provide extra protection

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