The English Garden

Plants for NOVEMBER

ovember, of all the months, is often hardest to plan and plant for. It’s not yet fully winter, and that brief, glorious, golden-hued sweet spot when fiery autumn leaves reach peak conflagration may or may not have passed. Precious time in the garden is reduced as thoughts of the shortest day and approaching festivities loom in the mind. But as any gardener worth their salt knows, there are always plants to depend on, and in November the choice is thankfully far wider than the limited displays in garden centres would have

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