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A walk in the park One of the UK’s grandest parkland estates, Lyme Park is 50 minutes from central Manchester. Its 1,400 acres offer countless breathtaking views. Walk to nearby Bowstones, where on a clear day you can see seven counties. Look out for stags in the deer park and discover the estate’s many enchanting follies. Lyme Park is probably most recognisable as the location for that scene, in the BBC’s 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice – the one where Mr Darcy takes a dip in the lake (although in the depths of November, we certainly wouldn’t recommend it). Open All year, daily. Card valid for the whole property – check website for house times. Card not valid on bank holiday weekends. nationaltrust.org.uk/lyme Fit for a king Part-medieval palace…

The winner of the Judges’ Choice award will receive a holiday, courtesy of Pure Michigan and Visit Detroit, worth over £6,000. The state of Michigan, in the Great Lakes region of the American Midwest, home to the City of Detroit, beautiful countryside, iconic gardens and open roads, is a true American adventure. Pure Michigan and Visit Detroit are delighted to offer a seven-night prize, consisting of flights, car hire and accommodation. The lucky winners will spend two nights in Detroit visiting Ford House and Belle Isle, and five nights in Michigan, including the famous Mackinac Island, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Holland. ◼ Return flights ◼ Seven nights in three- or four-star hotels For full details of all prizes see GardenersWorld.com/garden-competition…

Don’t dig it One of the simplest and most effective things we can all do is to use no-dig methods. When soil is dug, carbon is released as carbon dioxide. Not digging locks this carbon in the ground. No-dig keeps the soil ecosystem healthy and intact, creates a better environment for plants and results in bigger harvests. Top tip No-dig gardening is simple: rather than digging annually, spread a minimum of 1-2cm of compost on the surface as a mulch and leave it for the soil life to incorporate naturally. Pack in the plants Planting densely is another way to keep soil covered. Flower borders, trees and fruit bushes can benefit from ground cover, supporting a wide range of insects, small mammals and birds. In the veg garden, plant crops…

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This month 124 Gardeners’ Question Time The BBC Radio 4 experts answer this month’s pick of readers’ queries, including: ◼ how to speed up composting ◼ wildlife-friendly plants for shade ◼ encouraging potted cannas to fower Garden lichens Lichens are extraordinary organisms arising from a mutually beneficial relationship between fungi and algae. They can survive extreme conditions – some lichens live on bare rock and are the first colonisers of inhospitable places. In our gardens we’re most likely to see lichens on tree trunks or the stems of shrubs, especially in wetter areas like the far west of the UK. Here they tend to resemble a grey-green covering: crusty, scaly or woolly. Because they are slow-growing, lichens are often found on old plants, which may not be in the best of…

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Assumptions. We are all guilty of them. After a summer that was reputedly the driest since 1976 you could be forgiven, if you take note of the daily news bulletins, for thinking that every year from now on will be hotter and drier than the last. It will not. The reason I am so confident? Weather. Our worries about global warming and climate change are well founded, but there will still be variations year on year in what the sky throws at us and how the sun parches our land. The general trend may be for a rise in temperatures and sea levels, but within that rise there will be peaks and troughs – always have been, always will be. But this realistic approach seems to have been lost in…

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Campaigners say the battle to remove peat from compost isn’t over yet, despite the Government confirming it will be illegal to sell bagged compost that contains peat after 2024. While the Government has declared a ban on peat for amateur gardeners, it dropped a proposed deadline of 2028 to remove peat from professional horticulture, meaning growers can still produce plants in peat-based compost. A ban at some point is still on the table, and the Government says it “continues to work closely with the horticulture industry” to help them make the switch. Nursery growers get through over a million cubic metres of compost a year – and over half (51.7 per cent) is peat. Fewer than one in 10 of the UK’s 1,800 garden centres and nurseries have taken the…

Small, specialist nurseries faced with quadrupling energy bills and rising fuel costs are turning away from traditional sales benches and flower shows to sell online instead. Steven Fletcher, of fern specialists Fernatix, says he no longer goes to flower shows because of fuel costs, and because it’s easier to sell online. “I rely on mail order,” he says. Many nursery owners are simply taking retirement. Ursula Key-Davis and her sibling co-owners are retiring and closing pelargonium nursery Fibrex. “Everything’s stacking up so it’s the right time to go,” she says. She has rehomed the nursery’s two National Collections – but worries similar closures might mean rare plants become less available. “Where are people going to get these things once we’re gone?” Meanwhile a new wave of small-scale growers is bypassing…

Apprentices from the Eden Project in Cornwall have turned bus shelters into feeding stations for pollinators. Each ‘Buzz Stop’ has troughs of wildflowers and vertical ‘moon gardens’ for moths. “They’re like transport cafés for insects,” says the Eden Project’s Community Programmes Manager, Juliet Rose. ◼ For more on the Eden Project’s wildflower planting projects, visit bit.ly/eden-wild…

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“Spend any time at all beyond the obligatory St Mark’s Square and you will catch glimpses of plants and possible gardens” To go to Venice in search of gardens might seem to be founded more in hope than expectation. No city is more beautiful or more romantic, but few would stake its claim to fame on horticulture. There are some public gardens, but space is so short and so hard won that gardens might seem an impossible luxury for most. But spend any time at all beyond the obligatory visit to St Mark’s Square and you will catch glimpses of plants in passing and snatches of possible gardens through gateways and doors. There is wisteria reflected in the water as it falls in swags over a wall, a magnolia hedged…

Our tailor-made tour of North Wales’ finest gardens and castles has been designed to give you a full experience of this glorious coastal region. You’ll be staying at the four-star Llandudno Bay Hotel, located just a stone’s throw from the beach and overlooking the picturesque promenade, with Conwy and the beautiful Snowdonia National Park nearby. ◼ DAY 1 Make your own way to the hotel, where you meet our Tour Manager and enjoy a relaxing evening. ◼ DAY 2 We head to Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens, one of North Wales’ best-kept secrets on the beautiful island of Anglesey. On arrival we relax over tea or coffee and enjoy a talk by the owner, followed by a guided garden tour, including an area opened exclusively for our visit, followed by an…

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Don’t forget ◻ Leave seedheads on perennials to provide food for birds◻ Check any tree ties on stakes in case they need loosening or tightening◻ Keep squirrels off bulbs in pots by using pegged-down chicken wire◻ Plant bare-root hedging, after clearing the area of weeds and adding some organic matter Take fallen leaves out of lavender Pick all autumn leaves and summer weeds out of lavender plants to get some air into the middle and prevent them from rotting at the base. This gives lavender plants the best chance of shooting from low down to maintain a compact shape. Gather a handful of outer stems with one hand and reach right into the shrub with the other to clear away the debris. Remove old bergenia leaves Smarten up bergenias by cutting…

Bob Flowerdew Bob is an organic gardener and has designed his garden to produce lots of veg, fruit and cut flowers. Christine Walkden Garden writer Christine appears on BBC1’s The One Show. She is also a lecturer and tour leader. Matt Biggs Matt trained at Kew and has been gardening professionally for more than 30 years. Q What will grow in pots at our coastal holiday home? Carole Lambourne, Staffs A CHRISTINE SAYS Sea air and weeks without being tended to are quite a challenge for any plant in a pot, so you are going to need larger containers than you think, remembering that small ones dry out very quickly. Use a soil-based compost. Place the containers on pot feet so they can drain over wet periods, and ensure they have…

ACROSS 1 Put netting over these plot staples to deter pigeons (9) 7 One of many names for Reseda luteola (4) 8 Start pruning __ trees when dormant to promote fruiting (5) 9 Time to sow a green manure crop such as winter __ (3) 10 __back is a common symptom of disease in plants (3) 11 Immature buds on a potato (4) 12 __ lily is an alternative name for Lilium regale (5) 13 Paphiopedilum, or __ orchid, makes an exotic houseplant (7) 15 Pulsatilla vulgaris is better known as __flower (6) 17 Fungus gnats, greenhouse pests, are also called __ flies (7) 20 Finish planting these popular spring bulbs this month (6) 22 Genus of tropical evergreen shrubs with flaming blooms (5) 23 The horse chestnut genus (8) 24 Dry…

“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favourite month of all”Gregory Lenz STAR OF THE MONTH Cornus kousa We all know and love dogwoods for their spectacular bracts earlier in the season. In old films you can sometimes see behatted and bustled ladies bidding farewell to departing troops/children/lovers by waving their delicately laced handkerchiefs as the train pulls out or the carriage rattles away. That is what a cornus in fower looks like – a futter of white as the spring breezes blow. At this time of year, the naturally hanging leaves begin to gather a touch of burgundy and soon they will fall, their job done until next year. OLD YELLER If you were a European settler in America, trundling your covered wagons around the untamed wilderness,…

The Queen’s Green Canopy tree planting initiative, originally celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, will now run until March 2023, after King Charles said he wanted to give people the chance to plant trees in memory of his late mother. Each memorial tree will join a million already planted, all recorded on an online map which stretches from Penzance in Cornwall to the Shetland Islands in Scotland. “Planting trees for royalty goes back a long way,” says Tony Kirkham, former head of Kew’s arboretum. He says, where space allows, long-lived trees like English oak make the most fitting tributes. ◼ Record your own tree at queensgreencanopy.org ◼ Read Alan Titchmarsh’s tribute to Queen Elizabeth from p42…

1 COASTAL PARK ‘FAVOURITE’ Penrhos Coastal Park in north-west Wales has been named the UK’s favourite park following a public vote. The spectacular 200-acre site near Holyhead features historic buildings and its own beach. kehoecountryside.com/penrhos-coastal-park 2 GO RAMBLING FOR CHILDREN IN NEED Take a walk in the country or at your local park and raise money for the BBC Children in Need Appeal. Pick up your guide to this year’s BBC Countryfile Ramble at bbcchildreninneed.co.uk 3 POISONOUS COLLECTION A gardener who fell in love with highly poisonous monkshoods (Aconitum) after a chance seedling sprang up in her Hertfordshire garden now has a new National Collection of 40 varieties, open to visitors by appointment. plantheritage.org 4 FOOD FOR THE FUTURE Kew’s newly redeveloped sustainable kitchen garden has finished its first harvest. Book your visit…

“If summer has left you with a few gaps, now is a great time to get planting while the soil is warm and there’s moisture in the air” After taking on a new garden this year and dealing with the dry, hot summer, autumn has never felt more welcome. For me, this has always been a time of celebration, and a time to take a moment and enjoy the season. Misty mornings, dew-covered cobwebs and the lowering of the light in the sky, which in itself can be used to spot or back-light plants, start to drive a change in the atmosphere outside your back door. Autumn can be a fast-changing season, with plants starting to decay at varying rhythms. Something magical starts to happen, and I love that change…

Most of the palazzos on the Grand Canal rise directly out of the water with no more than a landing stage to moor up against. Very few have gardens visible from the water, but as our barge took us daily up and down the Grand Canal one garden shone out, a cut above any other, by virtue of having swags of white and pink roses spilling and billowing down to the water over a stone balustrade. In a city of water, stone and brick this was a touch of softness that trees or shrubs could not emulate. With each pass, the desire to go and see the rest of the garden tantalisingly glimpsed between the balusters as we sped by became more urgent. The garden belongs to Palazzo Cappello Malipiero…

The exuberant floweriness of summer may be well behind us but there’s much still to appreciate in our gardens, even as flowers continue to dwindle and leaf fall quickens. Containers offer an easy, effective and affordable way of bringing the finest of any season into focus, cheering up even very restricted spaces. In the low-slung sunlight of bright autumnal days, seasonally tinted leaves are illuminated like stained glass, while back-lit blooms turn thrillingly translucent, and feathery grasses are haloed mesmerisingly. Each of our pots is planted to take advantage of this engaging extra dimension and look their best sited where they can fully catch the light. Although much more understated than their summer counterparts, these still striking and colourful planting combinations are designed to carry us gently toward winter and…

“The fieldfare spends most of its time in orchards or hedgerows and berrying trees in the wild. In particularly cold winters it will venture into gardens” You may spot… Fieldfare, Turdus pilaris The fieldfare is a large thrush with a chestnut-brown back and creamy-yellow breast streaked with black. It has a black tail, dark wings and a grey rump and head. Like our resident song and mistle thrushes, it has a very upright stance and moves purposefully with bold hops. A social bird, the fieldfare arrives in October from Russia and eastern Europe, and is rarely seen alone. It sometimes forms huge flocks, often with redwings. It spends most of its time in orchards, eating windfall apples, and in hedgerows and berrying trees in the wild. In snowy conditions or…

SOW ◻ Broad beans can be sown direct in mild areas. Otherwise start them in 9cm pots in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse.◻ Peas sown in the greenhouse can provide an early harvest of pods next year – or you can just enjoy the fresh shoots in salads.◻ Spinach seeds can be sown in troughs in the greenhouse, for a burst of tender green leaves in the depths of winter. HARVEST ◻ Pick winter lettuce and oriental greens grown in the greenhouse. Pick outer leaves of lettuce and cut top growth from greens so that plants will continue to produce new growth. ◻ Tease out leeks as and when needed. Cut away and discard the roots.◻ Keep bringing in turnips – those harvested after the frosts arrive will be…

Whichever way you look at it, November is a miserable month. However, climate change has meant that the best autumnal colour now comes in early November rather than October, and the hard frosts that could be relied upon to appear and last for days have now become much less likely. This means that there is still some colour in the borders and the vegetable garden enters a new phase with a new range of harvests. One of the most colourful crops growing at this time of year is ruby chard, with its crimson stalks and crinkled deep-burgundy – almost chocolate – leaves. Chard is a member of the beet family and one of the most durable and useful vegetables there is. Although I primarily grow the green-leafed and white-stemmed Swiss…

Harvest the last of your chillies Snip off the last of the chilli harvest from plants still growing under glass. Use them straight away or preserve by drying, freezing or bottling. If you want to try overwintering the whole plant to get fruit earlier next year, trim the softest shoots and any damaged growth back, and give the plant some space and light. Plants will need some warmth to survive winter – the lightest possible windowsill or a heated greenhouse with clean glass are ideal. Water sparingly through winter and keep an eye on them for disease, removing any infected growth straight away. TOP TIP Create a cheerful display with early crocuses, planting corms in pots of compost topped with grit, then place in a cold garage, shed or cold…

By November the garden is well and truly into its dormant season. The days are short, though some of the sturdiest and most resilient short-day flowers like chrysanthemums may still be clinging on. You may also have the last of the autumn hips and berries on roses, rowans, hawthorns and blackthorns. And although these can all be pruned now, it’s best to wait for wildlife to finish off the fruits before you start. This period of dormancy gives us gardeners licence to be bolder with our actions and to re-jig and tidy our gardens without too much fear of damaging most plants. We can dig things up, move them around and cut back most large shrubs and trees that need bringing into check a little. I would always recommend a…

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