Amateur Gardening

Sorting out beds and borders

BORDERS will soon start to look pretty scrappy and drab over the next few weeks, so think about what you want to do next. Removing summer bedding and replacing it with autumn and spring varieties always helps cheer up the end of the year.

Autumn bedding including primulas, violas and pansies and biennial wallflowers and sweet Willliams, is also sold as

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